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Sex, Disease, and Society A Comparative History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific
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Lewis, amber, augh
ISBN: 0-313-29442-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29442-6
312 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/1997
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £91.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: This work identifies significant factors influencing, on the one hand, the historical pattern of sexually acquired diseases in 12 countries in Asia and the Pacific and, on the other hand, factors shaping the government and community responses to that pattern. Contributors analyze the role of supranational forces such as colonialism and economic modernization as well as distinctive national factors. The geographic scope is wide, extending from India in the west, to China in the east, to Australia in the south. The chronological scope is equally ambitious and contributors review two centuries or more of history, while also addressing the effect of the AIDS pandemic in a region of great social and economic dynamism. A number of factors including gender and economic inequality, as well as colonialism and economic growth, have been identified as important to the historical spread of sexually transmitted diseases and to the collective response of the spread. Quantitative data on disease incidence and mortality are used extensively throughout the book as are demographic, economic, and social statistics.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Introduction by Milton Lewis and Scott Bamber
    Sex, State, and Society: Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Modern India by David Arnold
    Dangerous Liaisons: A History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Thailand by Scott Bamber, Kevin Hewison, and Peter Underwood
    A History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in China by Frank Dikötter
    Conspiracy of Silence: A History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Hong Kong by Kerrie L. Macpherson
    A History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in the Philippines by Ken DeBevoise
    Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Vietnam and Cambodia since the French Colonial Period by Annick Guénel
    Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Malaysia: A History by Brendan O'Keefe
    Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Late Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Singapore by Brenda S. A. Yeoh
    A History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the Indonesian Archipelago since 1811 by A. Van Der Sterren, A. Murray, and T. Hull
    A History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Papua New Guinea by Jenny Hughes
    Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Australia from the Late Eighteenth to the Late Twentieth Century by Milton Lewis
    Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: MILTON LEWIS is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Sydney, Australia.

SCOTT BAMBER is Project Development Specialist, Thai-Australian Northern AIDS Prevention and Care Program, Chiangmai, Thailand.

MICHAEL WAUGH is Consultant Genitourinary Physician of the General Infirmary in Leeds in the United Kingdom.
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