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- catalog abstract "This book discloses the geographic dimensions of the AIDS pandemic. It provides a lucid description of the HIV, its origins, and the extent to which it has now permeated our lives. The author shows how the virus jumps from city to city, creating regional epicenters from which it spreads into surrounding area.--[book cover].".
- catalog contributor b4440621.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Preface: why a geographer writes about AIDS -- Acknowledgments: intellectual antennae -- Prologue: new plagues for old--the horseman rides again -- The killer: HIV and what it does -- The origins of HIV: closing an open question? -- The thin tendrils of effects -- Sex on a set: a backcloth for disaster -- Transmission break: a geography of the condom -- How things spread: hierarchical jumps and spatial contagion -- Africa: a continent in catastrophe -- Thailand: how to optimize an epidemic -- America: leaks in the system -- The Bronx: poverty, crack and HIV -- The response: how many bureaucrats can dance on the head of a pin? -- Time but no space: the failure of a paradigm -- The geography in confidentiality -- Education and planning: predicting the next maps -- Herd immunity: riding the coat-tails of the HIV -- Epilogue: old plagues for new -- Changing worlds, changing genres: a bibliographic essay.".
- catalog description "This book discloses the geographic dimensions of the AIDS pandemic. It provides a lucid description of the HIV, its origins, and the extent to which it has now permeated our lives. The author shows how the virus jumps from city to city, creating regional epicenters from which it spreads into surrounding area.--[book cover].".
- catalog extent "xvi, 228 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1557864187 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "1557864195 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford, U.K. ; Cambridge, U.S. : Blackwell Publishers,".
- catalog subject "1994 A-734".
- catalog subject "6147.5/993 20".
- catalog subject "AIDS (Disease) Epidemiology.".
- catalog subject "Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome epidemiology.".
- catalog subject "Medical geography.".
- catalog subject "RA644.A25 G685 1993".
- catalog subject "WD 308 G697s 1993".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface: why a geographer writes about AIDS -- Acknowledgments: intellectual antennae -- Prologue: new plagues for old--the horseman rides again -- The killer: HIV and what it does -- The origins of HIV: closing an open question? -- The thin tendrils of effects -- Sex on a set: a backcloth for disaster -- Transmission break: a geography of the condom -- How things spread: hierarchical jumps and spatial contagion -- Africa: a continent in catastrophe -- Thailand: how to optimize an epidemic -- America: leaks in the system -- The Bronx: poverty, crack and HIV -- The response: how many bureaucrats can dance on the head of a pin? -- Time but no space: the failure of a paradigm -- The geography in confidentiality -- Education and planning: predicting the next maps -- Herd immunity: riding the coat-tails of the HIV -- Epilogue: old plagues for new -- Changing worlds, changing genres: a bibliographic essay.".
- catalog title "The slow plague : a geography of the AIDS pandemic / Peter Gould.".
- catalog type "text".