HIV AIDS, Illness, and African Well-Being

CONTENTS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 10
PART I: Context......Page 12
Overview to HIV/AIDS, Illness, and African Well-Being......Page 14
Introduction: The Evolution of Disease in Africa......Page 27
1 The Infectious Continent: Africa, Disease, and the Western Imagination......Page 39
PART II: Illness Case Studies......Page 54
2 Waterborne Diseases and Urban Water Supply in Makurdi, Nigeria, 1927–60......Page 56
3 Smallpox and Social Control in Colonial Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1850–1916......Page 73
4 Poor Man’s Trouble, Rich Man’s Graveyard: A Study of Malariaand Epidemiological Sciences since the Nineteenth Century......Page 90
5 Perceptions of Epilepsy in a Traditional Society: An Akan(Ghana) Family’s Experience......Page 106
6 Disability in Nigeria......Page 127
PART III: Globalization, Development, and Health......Page 164
7 The Microbial Rebellion: Trends and Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance in Africa......Page 166
8 Development and the Epidemiologic Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa......Page 193
9 The Economic Burden of Buruli Ulcer Disease on Households in Rural Ghana......Page 210
10 Health Issues in a Mining Community in South Africa......Page 221
11 Globalization, Health, and the Hajj: The West African Pilgrimage Scheme, 1919–38......Page 254
PART IV: HIV/AIDS......Page 280
12 Of Savages and Mass Killing: HIV/AIDS, Africa and the Crisis of Global Health Governance......Page 282
13 Vicissitudes of AIDS Policies in Burkina Faso from 1985 to 2001: A Historical Perspective......Page 298
14 Factors Associated with Deliberate Attempts to Transmit HIV Infection among Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania......Page 320
15 Development and Alternative Mitigation Treatment Opportunities of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic......Page 335
16 Confusion, Anger, and Denial: Results of HIV/AIDS Focus Group Discussions with Urban Adult Zimbabweans......Page 363
17 Three Proposals for Analyzing the Economic Growth Effectsof HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa......Page 397
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 414
INDEX......Page 418