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Booth, Karen M., 1962-

Local women, global science : fighting AIDS in Kenya / Karen M. Booth. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004. - xiii, 204 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-194) and index.

Global medicine, local sex, and crisis -- Nairobi's casino: colonizing AIDS in the urban clinic -- Negotiating AIDS policy in Kenya: 1984-1994 -- "High-frequency transmitters" and invisible men -- "A husband can have a thousand girlfriends!" -- Drugs for whom? "African AIDS" in the second decade.

ISBN: 0253341817 (cloth : alk. paper) 0253216400 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2003011796

Subjects--Topical Terms:
AIDS (Disease)--Kenya.
AIDS (Disease) in women--Kenya.
AIDS (Disease)--Government policy.
HIV Infections--prevention & control--Kenya.
HIV Infections--ethnology--Kenya.
Health Policy--Kenya.
Sex Behavior--ethnology--Kenya.
Women's Health--Kenya.
Women's Rights--Kenya.

LC Class. No.: RA 643 / .B66 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 362.1/969792/0096762

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WC 503.6 / B725L 2004