Tinderbox
How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It
ISBN 9781101560617 | 432 pages | 01 Mar 2012 | Penguin | 18 - AND UP
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The definitive and revelatory account of the origins of HIV and the causes of the AIDS pandemic In this groundbreaking work that reads like a detective novel, longtime Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned the flames. Drawing on remarkable new science, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic, and in a riveting narrative that stretches from colonial Leopoldville to 1980s San Francisco to South Africa today, it reveals how human hands unleashed this epidemic and can now overcome it, if only we learn the lessons of the past. Prologue BOOK I: SILENT SPREAD 1. Francistown 2. Searching for the Beginning 3. One Tiny Speck of Truth 4. A Tale of Two Viruses 5. The Lion and Dr. Livingstone 6. Femmes Vivant Théoriquement Seules 7. The Gift 8. The Big Bang BOOK II: AN EPIDEMIC OF POLITICS 9. Americanizing AIDS 10. It Can't Be Here Already! 11. Attention na SIDA 12. You Won't Believe 13. Fear Worked 14. Born in Africa 15. The Condom Code 16. The Beat-up 17. Things Just Fell Apart BOOK III: THE HUMBLING 18. X-factor 19. The Interests of the ANC 20. Poverty Trap 21. A, B, and C 22. On the Jericho Road 23. Gordon and Thandi 24. A Marshall Plan for Botswana 25. What Shall We Do? 26. Raymond the Great 27. Makhwapheni Uyabulala 28. The Flood 29. Mother and Son 30. What Shall We Do? Part II Epilogue Appendix: How the AIDS Epidemic Can Be Overcome Acknowledgments Notes References to the Appendix Additional Suggested Readings Index "Remarkable . . . well-written and thoughtful, and sometimes reads like a detective novel. The authors have clearly done important research and have brought together amazing stories, bits of history, and scientific perspectives.” — The New Yorker“An insightful new book from a journalist and an AIDS researcher, tells the story of the epidemic from its birth in colonial Africa . . . to its status today as the object of a global public health war.” — Salon.com“The authors crisply chronicle the origins of AIDS from chimpanzees in West Africa and follow the perhaps shockingly slow spread of HIV across the African continent and to the rest of the world. . . . In addition to a useful history of the disease, Timberg and Halperin examine how to confront it and develop more effective ways to fight it. . . . [Timberg and Halperin] present a forceful case with which future students of HIV and AIDS will have to reckon.” — Kirkus (starred review)“Careful scientific detective work.” — The Nation“An essential and engrossing read, Timberg and Halperin’s sweeping work covers AIDS from its origins . . . to its impact on the world today. . . . Extensively researched, eminently readable and accessible, Timberg and Halperin’s work is a notable and invaluable addition to the AIDS canon.” — Booklist (starred review) |
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