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The Origins of AIDS
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It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Zaire, Jacques Pépin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in central Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of modern times. He shows how the disease was first transmitted from chimpanzees to man and then how military campaigns, urbanisation, prostitution and large-scale colonial medical interventions intended to eradicate tropical diseases combined to disastrous effect to fuel the spread of the virus from its origins in Léopoldville to the rest of Africa, the Caribbean and ultimately worldwide. This is an essential perspective on HIV/AIDS and on the lessons that must be learned as the world faces another pandemic.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Toponymy
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Out of Africa
- Chapter 2 The Source
- Chapter 3 The Timing
- Chapter 4 The Cut Hunter
- Chapter 5 The Scramble for Central Africa
- Chapter 6 Tropical Boom Towns
- Chapter 7 The Oldest Profession
- Chapter 8 Injections and the Transmission of Viruses
- Chapter 9 The Legacies of French Colonial Medicine
- Chapter 10 The Legacies of Belgian Tropical Medicine
- Chapter 11 The Other Human Immunodeficiency Viruses
- Chapter 12 From the Congo to the Caribbean
- Chapter 13 The Blood Trade
- Chapter 14 A Long Journey
- Chapter 15 Globalisation
- Chapter 16 A False Villain, a Genuine Hero
- Chapter 17 Epilogue
- References
- Index