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Social Science Disease & Health Issues

The Wisdom of Whores

Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS

by (author) Elizabeth Pisani

Publisher
Penguin Group Canada
Initial publish date
May 2009
Category
Disease & Health Issues, Health Policy, Epidemiology
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780143167969
    Publish Date
    May 2009
    List Price
    $24.00

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Description

This controversial book addresses how sex and drugs have turned the global epidemic of HIV into a billion-dollar-a-year industry. Epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani takes a no-holdsbarred approach to finding out exactly why 40 million people are living with HIV and 28 million have already died of AIDS when we have the knowledge, the money, and the means to wipe out the disease in 90 percent of the world.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Elizabeth Pisani has lived in Indonesia at various times over the past twenty-five years, originally as a journalist and later as an HIV epidemiologist. The author of The Wisdom of Whores and Indonesia Etc., she is based in London.