Tinderbox How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It

Name: Tinderbox How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It
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ISBN: 9780143123002

ISBN-10: 0143123009

ISBN-13: 9780143123002

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Authors: Craig Timberg, Daniel Halperin

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The definitive and revelatory account of the origins of HIV and the causes of the AIDS pandemic In this groundbreaking work that reads like a detective novel, longtimeWashington Postreporter Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned the flames. Drawing on remarkable new science,Tinderboxoverturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic, and in a riveting narrative that stretches from colonial Leopoldville to 1980s San Francisco to South Africa today, it reveals how human hands unleashed this epidemic and can now overcome it, if only we…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Prologue



Silent Spread



Francistown



Searching for the Beginning



One Tiny Speck of Truth



A Tale of Two Viruses



The Lion and Dr. Livingstone



Femmes Vivant Thï¿½oriquement Seules



The Gift



The Big Bang



An Epidemic of Politics



Americanizing AIDS



It Can't Be Here Already!



Attention na SIDA



You Won't Believe



Fear Worked



Born in Africa



The Condom Code



The Beat-up



Things Just Fell Apart



The Humbling



X Factor



The Interests of the ANC



Poverty Trap



A, B, and C



On the Jericho Road



Gordon and Thandi



A Marshall Plan for Botswana



What Shall We Do?



Raymond the Great



Makhwapheni Uyabulala



The Flood



Mother and Son



What Shall We Do? Part II


Epilogue


Appendix: How the AIDS Epidemic Can Be Overcome


Acknowledgments


Notes


References to the Appendix


Additional Suggested Readings


Index