The wisdom of whores : bureaucrats, brothels, and the business of AIDS / Elizabeth Pisani.
Pisani, Elizabeth.
2008
RA643.8 .P57 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
The wisdom of whores : bureaucrats, brothels, and the business of AIDS / Elizabeth Pisani.
Author
Pisani, Elizabeth.
Edition
1st American ed.
ISBN
9780393066623
0393066622
Publication Details
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 372 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
RA643.8 .P57 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
614.5/99392
Summary
A World Bank and WHO advisor and epidemiologist presents an assessment of the factors influencing international AIDS prevention, in a report that makes recommendations about how to more appropriately allocate tax funds and draws on interviews with a widerange of contributors, from Indonesian transsexuals to Chinese prostitutes.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of contents only
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Full circle.

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