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- Book Title
- The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in A
- Publication Date
- 2008-05-27
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN
- 9780312427726
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Invisible Cure : Why We Are Losing the Fight Against Aids in Africa
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Picador
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 11.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory dispatch from the intersection of village life, government intervention, and international aid. Helen Epstein left her job in the US in 1993 to move to Uganda, where she began work on a test vaccine for HIV. Once there, she met patients, doctors, politicians, and aid workers, and began exploring the problem of AIDS in Africa through the lenses of medicine, politics, economics, and sociology. Amid the catastrophic failure to reverse the epidemic, she discovered a village-based solution that could prove more effective than any network of government intervention and international aid, an intuitive response that calls into question many of the fundamental assumptions about the AIDS in Africa. Written with conviction, knowledge, and insight, The Invisible Cure will change how we think about the worst health crisis of the past century--and indeed about every issue of global public health.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
0312427727
ISBN-13
9780312427726
eBay Product ID (ePID)
64057718
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Invisible Cure : Why We Are Losing the Fight Against Aids in Africa
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ra643.86.A35e674
Reviews
"Her tone is level and undogmatic, but the news that Helen Epstein brings from the African front lines about AIDS is searing. So many lives have been lost, so much time and money wasted in badly-designed public and private campaigns against the disease. What actually works is both simple and subtle. There may be no magic bullet--there may never be a vaccine--but there are success stories, even in very poor countries. This is a landmark study. " --William Finnegan, author of Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country and A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique, Sometimes a bolt of clarity shoots out of the blue . . . as it will for readers of this book who yearn for insights on how a deadly virus now infects an estimated 25 million Africans and has killed untold millions more., "An enlightening and troubling book."--The New York Times "Helen Epstein is one of a rare species: the scientist turned storyteller. . . . [A] blunt, informed critique."--Salon.com "The UN and President Bush should not just read Epstein's book, they should distribute it around Africa."--The Sunday Times(London) "Elegant prose, a scientific background, and a journalist's searching anecdotal eye."--Nature "Sometimes a bolt of clarity shoots out of the blue . . . as it will for readers of this book who yearn for insights on how a deadly virus now infects an estimated 25 million Africans and has killed untold millions more."--The New York Times Book Review "Epstein has a compelling thesis, and she explains it in lucid, sometimes extraordinary prose."--The Nation, "An enlightening and troubling book." -- The New York Times "Helen Epstein is one of a rare species: the scientist turned storyteller. . . . [A] blunt, informed critique." -- Salon.com "The UN and President Bush should not just read Epstein's book, they should distribute it around Africa." -- The Sunday Times (London) "Elegant prose, a scientific background, and a journalist's searching anecdotal eye." -- Nature "Sometimes a bolt of clarity shoots out of the blue . . . as it will for readers of this book who yearn for insights on how a deadly virus now infects an estimated 25 million Africans and has killed untold millions more." -- The New York Times Book Review "Epstein has a compelling thesis, and she explains it in lucid, sometimes extraordinary prose." -- The Nation, "An enlightening and troubling book."-- The New York Times "Helen Epstein is one of a rare species: the scientist turned storyteller. . . . [A] blunt, informed critique."-- Salon.com "The UN and President Bush should not just read Epstein's book, they should distribute it around Africa."-- The Sunday Times (London) "Elegant prose, a scientific background, and a journalist's searching anecdotal eye."-- Nature "Sometimes a bolt of clarity shoots out of the blue . . . as it will for readers of this book who yearn for insights on how a deadly virus now infects an estimated 25 million Africans and has killed untold millions more."-- The New York Times Book Review "Epstein has a compelling thesis, and she explains it in lucid, sometimes extraordinary prose."-- The Nation, Helen Epstein is one of a rare species: the scientist turned storyteller. . . . [A] blunt, informed critique., "An enlightening and troubling book."-- The New York Times "Helen Epstein is one of a rare species: the scientist turned storyteller. . . . [A] blunt, informed critique."-- Salon.com "The UN and President Bush should not just read Epstein's book, they should distribute it around Africa."-- The Sunday Times (London) "Elegant prose, a scientific background, and a journalist's searching anecdotal eye."-- Nature "Sometimes a bolt of clarity shoots out of the blue . . . as it will for readers of this book who yearn for insights on how a deadly virus now infects an estimated 25 million Africans and has killed untold millions more."-- The New York Times Book Review "Epstein has a compelling thesis, and she explains it in lucid, sometimes extraordinary prose."-- The Nation, "An enlightening and troubling book."--"The New York Times" "Helen Epstein is one of a rare species: the scientist turned storyteller. . . . [A] blunt, informed critique."--"Salon.com" "" "The UN and President Bush should not just read Epstein's book, they should distribute it around Africa."--"The Sunday Times" (London) "Elegant prose, a scientific background, and a journalist's searching anecdotal eye."--"Nature" "Sometimes a bolt of clarity shoots out of the blue . . . as it will for readers of this book who yearn for insights on how a deadly virus now infects an estimated 25 million Africans and has killed untold millions more."--"The New York Times Book Review" "Epstein has a compelling thesis, and she explains it in lucid, sometimes extraordinary prose."--"The Nation", "An enlightening and troubling book."-- The New York Times "Helen Epstein is one of a rare species: the scientist turned storyteller. . . .[A] blunt, informed critique."-- Salon.com "The UN and President Bush should not just read Epstein's book, they should distribute it around Africa."-- The Sunday Times (London) "Elegant prose, a scientific background, and a journalist's searching anecdotal eye."-- Nature "Sometimes a bolt of clarity shoots out of the blue . . . as it will for readers of this book who yearn for insights on how a deadly virus now infects an estimated 25 million Africans and has killed untold millions more."-- The New York Times Book Review "Epstein has a compelling thesis, and she explains it in lucid, sometimes extraordinary prose."-- The Nation, The UN and President Bush should not just read Epstein's book, they should distribute it around Africa.
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
Africa / General, Aids & Hiv
Dewey Decimal
362.19697920096
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Medical, History
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