A Plague of Paradoxes: AIDS, Culture, and Demography in Northern Tanzania [Paperback]

Philip W. Setel (Author)

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Paperback: 318 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (Feb 15 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226748863
ISBN-13: 978-0226748863
Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 386 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #483,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #74 in Books > Science > Medicine > Diseases > AIDS & HIV
- #78 in Books > Medicine > Diseases > AIDS & HIV

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Since recording its first AIDS cases in 1983, Tanzania has reported nearly 90,000 more to the World Health Organization—more than any other country in Africa. As AIDS spread, the devastating syndrome came to be known simply as ugonjwa huo: "that disease."

The AIDS epidemic has forced Africans to reflect upon the meaning of traditional ideas and practices related to sexuality and fertility, and upon modernity and biomedicine. In A Plague of Paradoxes, anthropologist Philip Setel observes Tanzania's Chagga people and their attempts to cope with and understand AIDS—the latest in a series of crises over which they feel they have little, if any, control.

Timely and well-researched, A Plague of Paradoxes is an extended case study of the most serious epidemic of the twentieth century and the cultural circumstances out of which it emerged. It is a unique book that brings together anthropology, demography, and epidemiology to explain how a particular community in Africa experiences AIDS.

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Used this book to inform the development of a new HIV and AIDS Communication strategy for Tanzania. My colleagues were very impressed with the depth of cultural understanding.

I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in understanding the complexities of communicating about HIV and AIDS.

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