Matthew M. Heaton & Toyin Falola 
HIV/AIDS, Illness, and African Well-Being [PDF ebook] 

A comprehensive view of health issues currently plaguing Africa, with an emphasis on the HIV/AIDS pandemic.


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 healthcrises, 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 underdevelopmenton 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, thesociological 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 differentways 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 Ph D candidate at the University of Texas at Austin.

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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

Development and Alternative Mitigation Treatment Opportunities of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic – 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

Giới thiệu về tác giả

RAPHAEL CHIJIOKE NJOKU is professor of history at Idaho State University.