Here's a quote from the flyer:
"To proceed against AIDS, a dense thicket of myth, half-thought ideas
and preconceptions must first be cleared. This book makes a major
contribution to this necessary task by staying always close to lived
realities of real people in real places, and refusing the old, empty, pat
answers to difficult questions. This is a hard-nosed, real-life analysis -
an antidote to status quo thinking - the kind of reading which should be
required for all who care about AIDS - or public health." - Jonathan Mann,
Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Profesor for Health and Human Rights, Director of
the International AIDS Center, Harvard School of Public Health
Paul Farmer, Margaret Connors, & Janie Simmons (Eds.) (1996) _Women,
Poverty, and AIDS: Sex, Drugs & Structural Violence_
Common Courage Press
P.O. Box 702
Monroe, ME 04951
or 1-800-4973207
There is of course much more on women's health & poverty....
- Judy
>>I see the focus on written & spoken texts to be necessary but insufficient
>>for a rich analysis of cultural innovations.
>
>I agree wholeheartedly, and I would appreciate any citation(s) you may have
>on medical anthropologists making salient issues of women's health and
>poverty, through written and spoken texts.
>The ways people with specialized expertise (here, medical anthropologists
>and, I assume, epidemiologists) (re)(co)construct disease and poverty and
>gender in their professional activity--and the ways their human objects
>(re)(co)act as subjects to organize political action--and the
>contradictions and changes that may therefore result--all are certainly of
>great salience and interest from CHAT perspectives.
>
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>David R. Russell
>English Department
>Iowa State University
>Ames, IA 50011
>USA (515) 294-4724,fax 294-6814
>drrussel who-is-at iastate.edu
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Judy Diamondstone diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
Graduate School of Education Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
10 Seminary Place New Brunswick, NJ 08903
Eternity is in love with the productions of time. - W. Blake