The origins of AIDS / Jacques Pepin.
The origins of AIDS / Jacques Pepin.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Date
2011.
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N362.19697/77
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English
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xiv, 293 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction -- 1. Out of Africa -- 2. The source -- 3. The timing -- 4. The cut hunter -- 5. Societies in transition -- 6. The oldest trade -- 7. Injections and the transmission of viruses -- 8. The legacies of colonial medicine. 1. French Equatorial Africa and Cameroun -- 9. The legacies of coloni...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2011.
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Summary
"This compelling new account traces the origins and development of the most dramatic and destructive disease epidemic of modern times. Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and the subsequent evolution and transmission of the disease before it was first officially identifie...
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The origins of AIDS / Jacques Pepin.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N362.19697/77
Record Identifier
74VvW0Vd7kQd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvW0Vd7kQd
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9781107006638 (hbk.)
0521186374 (pbk.)
1107006635 (hbk.)
9780521186377 (pbk.)
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362.19697920096
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991012092779702626
