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The Origins of AIDS
It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Zaire, Jacques Pépin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in central Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of modern times. He shows how the disease was first transmitted from chimpanzees to man and then how military campaigns, urbanisation, prostitution and large-scale colonial medical interventions intended to eradicate tropical diseases combined to disastrous effect to fuel the spread of the virus from its origins in Léopoldville to the rest of Africa, the Caribbean and ultimately worldwide. This is an essential perspective on HIV/AIDS and on the lessons that must be learned as the world faces another pandemic.
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The Origins of AIDS
It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Zaire, Jacques Pépin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in central Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of modern times. He shows how the disease was first transmitted from chimpanzees to man and then how military campaigns, urbanisation, prostitution and large-scale colonial medical interventions intended to eradicate tropical diseases combined to disastrous effect to fuel the spread of the virus from its origins in Léopoldville to the rest of Africa, the Caribbean and ultimately worldwide. This is an essential perspective on HIV/AIDS and on the lessons that must be learned as the world faces another pandemic.
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The Origins of AIDS

The Origins of AIDS

by Jacques Pépin
The Origins of AIDS

The Origins of AIDS

by Jacques Pépin

Overview

It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Zaire, Jacques Pépin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in central Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of modern times. He shows how the disease was first transmitted from chimpanzees to man and then how military campaigns, urbanisation, prostitution and large-scale colonial medical interventions intended to eradicate tropical diseases combined to disastrous effect to fuel the spread of the virus from its origins in Léopoldville to the rest of Africa, the Caribbean and ultimately worldwide. This is an essential perspective on HIV/AIDS and on the lessons that must be learned as the world faces another pandemic.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108720397
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 01/21/2021
Edition description: 2nd Revised ed.
Pages: 392
Sales rank: 416,350
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Jacques Pépin is Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Université de Sherbrooke, Canada. He has conducted research on infectious diseases in sixteen African countries.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Out of Africa; 2. The Source; 3. The Timing; 4. The Cut Hunter; 5. The Scramble for Central Africa; 6. Tropical Boom Towns; 7. The Oldest Profession; 8. Injections and the Transmission of Viruses; 9. The Legacies of French Colonial Medicine; 10. The Legacies of Belgian Tropical Medicine; 11. The Other Human Immunodeficiency Viruses; 12. From the Congo to the Caribbean; 13. The Blood Trade; 14. A Long Journey; 15. Globalisation; 16. A False Villain, a Genuine Hero; 17. Epilogue
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