The Politics of Global AIDS: Institutionalization of Solidarity, Exclusion of Context
Hakan Seckinelgin
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Hardback. Series: Social Aspects of HIV. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH2; JPA; KCP; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 277 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444.
This timely book looks critically at the policy response to AIDS and its institutionalization over time. It raises important questions about who benefits, who decides, and in whose interests decisions are made. Taking the early international response to the epidemic as its starting point, and focusing on the work of agencies such as UNAIDS, it identifies two logics underpinning strategy to date. First, the idea of HIV as a `global emergency' which calls for an extraordinary response. Second, the claim that medicine offers the best way of dealing with it. The book also identified the rise of something more ... Read more
This timely book looks critically at the policy response to AIDS and its institutionalization over time. It raises important questions about who benefits, who decides, and in whose interests decisions are made. Taking the early international response to the epidemic as its starting point, and focusing on the work of agencies such as UNAIDS, it identifies two logics underpinning strategy to date. First, the idea of HIV as a `global emergency' which calls for an extraordinary response. Second, the claim that medicine offers the best way of dealing with it. The book also identified the rise of something more ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Social Aspects of HIV
Condition
New
Weight
443g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319460116
SKU
V9783319460116
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