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
Imprint 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Preface: The accidental epidemiologist
Cooking up an epidemic
Landscapes of desire
The honesty box
The naked truth
Sacred cows
Articles of faith
HIV shoots up
Ants in the sugar-bowl
Full circle.

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