The wisdom of whores : bureaucrats, brothels, and the business of AIDS / Elizabeth Pisani.

  • Pisani, Elizabeth.
Date:
2008
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.

Physical description

xvii, 372 pages ; 25 cm

Contributors

Contents

Preface: The accidental epidemiologist -- Cooking up an epidemic -- Landscapes of desire -- The honesty box -- The naked truth -- Sacred cows -- Articled of faith -- HIV shoots up -- Ants in the sugar-bowl -- Full circle.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-363) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    FEJ /PIS
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780393066623
  • 0393066622