1st Edition

The Political Economy of AIDS

By Merrill Singer Copyright 1998
    236 Pages
    by Routledge

    244 Pages
    by Routledge

    Features a collection of seven research-based articles on AIDS. This work seeks to cut through popular misunderstanding and conventional ideas about the spread and impact of AIDS by employing a political economic perspective in the analysis of the epidemic in diverse settings.

    Preface

    Section I: Understanding Epidemics in Political Economic Context
     Chapter 1 The Political Economy of AIDS: An Introduction Merrill Singer

     Chapter 2 Images of Catastrophe: The Making of an Epidemic Shirley Lindenbaum

    Section II: Gender, Ethnicity and Class in AIDS Risk in the Inner-City
     Chapter 3 Articulating Personal Experience and Political Economy in the  AIDS Epidemic: The Case of Carlos Torres Merrill Singer

     Chapter 4 Love, Jealousy, and Unsafe Sex among Inner-City Women: Social and Psychocultural Mediators of Political Economy's Impact on AIDS Risk Perception E. J. Sobo

     Chapter 5 Multiple Racial/Ethnic Subordination and HIV among Drug Users Samuel R. Friedman, Benny Jose, Bruce Stepherson, Alan Neaigus, Marjorie Goldstein, Pat Mota, Richard Curtis,
    and Gilbert Ildefonso

    Section III: The Struggle for Care Among People with HIV/AIDS
     Chapter 6 Medical Access for Injecting Drug Users Russell Rockwell, Samuel R. Friedman, Jo L. Sotheran, and Don Des Jarlais

     Chapter 7 The Political Economy of  Caregiving for People with AIDS Anthony J. Lemelle and Charlene Harrington

    Section IV: AIDS In The Third World
     Chapter 8 The Political Ecology of AIDS in Africa Meredith Turshen

     Chapter 9 More than Money for Your Labor. Migration and the Political Economy of AIDS in Lesotho Nancy Romero-Daza and David Himmelgreen

     Chapter 10 Political Economy and Cultural Logics of HIV/AIDS among the Hmong in Northern Thailand Patricia V. Symonds

     Conclusion

     About the Contributors

     Name Index

     Topic Index

    Biography

    Merrill Singer