Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881. 267p., bibliog., index. (Contributions in Medical Studies, no. 44). ISBN 0-313-29715-0. $75.00.
Philip W. Setel, Milton Lewis, Maryinez Lyons. 1999.
The ten chapters cover: "Comparative Histories of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Africa: An Introduction," "Sex, Disease, and Culture Change in Ghana," "Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Cote d'Ivoire," "A History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS in Senegal," "Medicine and Morality: A Review of Responses to Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Uganda in the Twentieth Century," "Local Histories of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS in Western and Northern Tanzania," "Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Colonial Malawi," "The Social, Cultural, and Epidemiological History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Zambia," "The Management of Venereal Disease in a Settler Society: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1900-30," and "Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century South Africa."
These are highly researched chapters that provide a wealth of information about STDs and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. In each case one will discover how difficult it is to fight these diseases when cultures prevent any open discussion of sex. This is a must book for all libraries in Africa and a highly recommended book for academic libraries throughout the world. More research efforts such as this need to be funded so that the total picture of STDs and HIV/AIDS in the world can be seen.
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