Histories of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa / Edition 1

by Milton Lewis, Maryinez Lyons, Philip Setel

Overview

In a series of case studies of sexually transmitted disease and HIV/AIDS from around Africa, contributors examine the social, cultural, and political-economic bases of risk, transmission, and response to epidemic disease. This book brings together major contributions to the historical study of epidemic disease in developing countries and considers how particular constellations of cultural, social, political, and economic factors in different countries have affected the historical patterns of disease and collective (official and community) response to them. This book is a companion volume to Sex, Disease, and Society: A Comparative History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (Greenwood, 1997).

From this endeavor to provide insight into the conjunctions and disjunctions between the histories of STDs and the AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa certain common issues have emerged. These include medical ambiguity and epidemiologic diversity; cultural change; racism; gender, labor migration, and economic instability; and the practice of biomedicine and epidemiology in African contexts. All of these factors are embedded in the colonial legacy and post-colonial political economic conditions across the continent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313297151
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/30/1999
Series:	Contributions in Medical Studies , #44
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

PHILIP W. SETEL is the Director of the Adult Morbidity and Mortality Project in Tanzania, and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Medical School. He is a medical and demographic anthropologist who has done research in Africa and Papua New Guinea. He has conducted several studies of AIDS, sexuality, fertility, and gender.

MILTON LEWIS is currently a Senior Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia./e He is a medical historian who has published extensively on the history of sexually transmitted diseases and colonial medical history. He is editor of Sex, Disease, and Society: A Comparative History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (Greenwood, 1997).

MARYINEZ LYONS is an independent consultant and medical historian engaged in studying the social history of AIDS in Uganda. She is conducting research in affiliation with the Chicago Humanities Institute, University of Chicago, and the University of Cologne. Her previous work includes a monograph on the history of sleeping sickness in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Comparative Histories of STDs and HIV/AIDS in Africa by Philip Setel
Sex, Disease, and Culture Change in Ghana by Deborah Pellow
Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Côte d'Ivoire by Jeanne-Marie Amat-Roze
A History of STDs and AIDS in Senegal—Difficulties in Accounting for 'Social Logics' in Health Policy by Charles Becker and Rene Collignon
Medicine and Morality: A Review of Responses to Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Uganda Over the 20th Century by Maryinez Lyons
Local Histories of STDs and AIDS in Western and Northern Tanzania by Philip Setel
Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Colonial Malawi by Wiseman Chijere Chirwa
The Social, Cultural, and Epidemiological History of STDs in Zambia by Bryan T. Callahan and Virginia Bond
The Management of Venereal Disease in a Settler Society: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1900 to 1930 by Jock McCulloch
The Origins of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century South Africa and the Development of Racially Segregated Approaches to Treatment by Karen Jochelson
Bibliographies
Illustrations

Editorial Reviews

Case studies focus on the social, cultural, and politico-economic bases of past and present epidemics in anglophone and francophone countries in west, east, central, and southern Africa. Among the 10 topics are sex, disease, and culture change in Ghana; difficulties in accounting for social logics in Senegal's health policy; colonial Malawi; managing venereal disease in settlement society in colonial Zimbabwe 1900-30, and South Africa of the 19th and 20th centuries. A 1997 companion volume focuses on Asia and the Pacific. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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