Social Science Disease & Health Issues
The Wisdom of Whores
Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
- Publisher
- Penguin Group Canada
- Initial publish date
- May 2009
- Category
- Disease & Health Issues, Health Policy, Epidemiology
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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.
