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Author: Cristiana Bastos
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.540kg
ISBN: 9780253335906
ISBN 10: 0253335906
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 22 November 1999
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Bastos (Univ. of Lisbon) writes from an extended experience beginning with a PhD in anthropology and continuing with several types of fieldwork and the processing of their impact. The book is a multilayered, composite approach that involves multisited ethnographic research in different spheres of the collective responses to AIDS: AIDS activism in New York City and the US more generally, the World Health Organization, the nongovernmental organizations in South America, and the clinical settings and research centers for infectious disease in Brazil. The book begins with an overview of biomedical knowledge and social commentary, followed by an analysis of the social movement generated by the inability of the medical establishment to respond to the AIDS crisis efficiently. The narrative moves to the growing awareness of the global dimensions of the epidemic and efforts of international agencies to launch an effective global response. A field setting offers contradictions and asymmetries of the contemporary world. Finally, Bastos attempts to evaluate the extent to which global responses to AIDS led to the creation of interactive structures. For graduate students and faculty. -J. M. Howe, AIDS Information Center, VA Headquarters (DC), Choice, July 2000
What Cristiana Bastos does well is analyse the inferiority complex of former colonial countries, where social elites look too much towards the models of the West instead of acknowledging that local solutions often work best.""--TLS, September 28, 2001 ""Whilst the arrival of AIDS in 1980 united rich and poor, the subsequent course of the epidemic and the development of treatments to combat it have accentuated divisions between them. This book provides a scholarly account of how such mechanisms operate.""--Journal of the RAI, September 2001
What Cristiana Bastos does well is analyse the inferiority complex of former colonial countries, where social elites look too much towards the models of the West instead of acknowledging that local solutions often work best. --TLS, September 28, 2001 Whilst the arrival of AIDS in 1980 united rich and poor, the subsequent course of the epidemic and the development of treatments to combat it have accentuated divisions between them. This book provides a scholarly account of how such mechanisms operate. --Journal of the RAI, September 2001
What Cristiana Bastos does well is analyse the inferiority complex of former colonial countries, where social elites look too much towards the models of the West instead of acknowledging that local solutions often work best. --TLS, September 28, 2001 Whilst the arrival of AIDS in 1980 united rich and poor, the subsequent course of the epidemic and the development of treatments to combat it have accentuated divisions between them. This book provides a scholarly account of how such mechanisms operate. --Journal of the RAI, September 2001
Author Information
Cristiana Bastos is a Senior Research Fellow at the Social Sciences Institute, University of Lisbon and is the author of Os Montes do Nordeste Algarvio and several articles on Algarve and Alentejo.
