The histories of HIVs : the emergence of the multiple viruses that caused the AIDS epidemics / edited by William H. Schneider, PhD.
- Date:
- [2021]
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Description
"In this interdisciplinary collection, experts provide the most complete description to date of the often ignored and underappreciated features of the history of the multiple human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) responsible for the global AIDS pandemic"--From publisher.
Publication/Creation
Athens : Ohio University Press, [2021]
Physical description
xiii, 263 pages : black and white illustrations, black and white maps ; 23 cm.
Contents
Preface / François Simon -- Acknowledgements / William H. Schneider -- The Histories of HIVs: The Multiple Viruses that Caused the AIDS Epidemic / William H. Schneider -- Explaining the Emergence of HIVs / Preston A. Marx -- The Origins of HIVs and the Epidemiology of AIDS: An Introduction / Ernest M. Drucker -- From Chimps to Humans: An Historical Epidemiology of HIV Beginnings / Tamara Giles-Vernick and Stephanie Rupp -- A Social Virus: The Emergence of HIV-1 in Colonial Kinshasa, 1900-1960 / Didier Gondola and Amandine Lauro -- The Cameroonian Puzzle: Historical and Virological Aspects of the Emergence of HIV-1 groups O, N, and P / Guillaume Lachenal -- The Emergence and Spread of HIV-2 in Ivory Coast and Guinea-Bissau / Jorge Varanda -- Histories of HIVs in Broader Perspective / William H. Schneider.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineFEJ /SCHOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780821424926