Falola / Heaton Hiv/Aids, Illness, and African Well-Being

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-58046-240-2
Verlag: UNIV OF ROCHESTER PR

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Beschreibung

HIV/AIDS, Illness and African Well-Being highlights the specific health problems facing Africa today, most particularly the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, the book presents not only various health crises, but also the larger historical and contemporary contexts within which they must be understood and managed. Chapters offering analysis of specific illness case studies, and the effects of globalization and underdevelopment on health, provide an overarching context in which HIV/AIDS and other health-related concerns can be understood. The contributions on the HIV/AIDS pandemic grapple with the complications of national and international policies, the sociological effects of the pandemic, and policy options for the future. HIV/AIDS, Illness and African Well-Being thus provides a comprehensive view of health issues currently plaguing the continent and the many different ways that scholars are interpreting the health outlook in Africa.

Contributors: Obijiofor Aginam, Yacouba Banhoro, Richard Beilock, Charity Chenga, Mandi Chikombero, Kaley Creswell, Freek Cronjé, Frank N. F. Dadzie, Gabriel B. Fosu, Stephen Obeng-Manu Gyimah, Kathryn H. Jacobsen, W. Bediako Lamousé-Smith, William N. Mkanta, Gerald M. Mumma, Kalala Ngalamulume, Raphael Chijioke Njoku, Cecilia S. Obeng, Iruka N. Okeke, Akpen Philip, Baffour K. Takyi, Melissa K. Van Dyke, Sophie Wertheimer, Ellen A. S. Whitney

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Matthew M. Heaton is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin.

Autoren

Herausgeber

Falola, Toyin

Heaton, Matthew M.

weitere Mitwirkende

Philip, Akpen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Infectious Continent: Africa, Disease, and the Western Imagination - Sophie Wertheimer
Waterborne Diseases and Urban Water Supply in Makurdi, Nigeria, 1927-60 - Akpen Philip
Smallpox and Social Control in Colonial Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1850-1916 - Kalala Ngalamulume
Poor Man's Trouble, Rich Man's Graveyard: A Study of Malaria and Epidemiological Sciences since the Nineteenth Century - Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Perceptions of Epilepsy in a Traditional Society: An Akan (Ghana) Family's Experience - Dr. Cecilia Obeng
Disability in Nigeria - Gabriel B. Fosu-Ph.D. Scientific Rev Admi and Prof. Willie Lamouse-Smith and Baffour K. Takyi-Associate Prof. and Stephen Obeng-Manu Gyimah
The Microbial Rebellion: Trends and Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance in Africa - Iruka N. Okeke
Development and Epidemiologic Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa - Frank D.F. Dadzie and Melissa K. Van Dyke
The Economic Burden of Buruli Ulcer Disease on Households in Rural Ghana - Frank D.F. Dadzie and Gerald A. Mumma
Health Issues in a Mining Community in South Africa - Freek Cronjé and Charity Chenga
Globalization, Health, and the Hajj: The West African Pilgrimage Scheme, 1919-38 - Matthew Heaton
Of Savages and Mass Killing: HIV/AIDS, Africa and the Crisis of Global Health Governance - Obi Aginam
Vicissitudes of AIDS Policies in Burkina Faso from 1985 to 2001: A Historical Perspective - Yacouba Banhoro
Factors Associated with Deliberate Attempts to Transmit HIV Infection among Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania - William N. Mkanta
Development and Alternative Mitigation Treatment Opportunities of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic - Richard Beilock and Kaley Creswell
Confusion, Anger, and Denial: Results of HIV/AIDS Focus Group Discussions with Urban Adult Zimbabweans - Mandi Chikombero
Three Proposals for Analyzing the Economic Growth Effects of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa - Richard Beilock

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