The Slow Plague: A Geography of the AIDS Pandemic

Rating:
Summary: Excellent!
Review: Written in 1992, this book is still well worth reading by anyone, lay or expert, interested in the spread of HIV/AIDS. Readers with scanty technical knowledge of the virus, and no familiarity with what geographers do or how they think, need not fear. Gould is a master of exposition. Four especially illuminating chapters take us through the spread of HIV/AIDS within continental Africa, the nation of Thailand, the state of Ohio and the limits of the Bronx. As a geographer, Gould shows how grappling with the spatial dimension of HIV/AIDS yields both insight and useful knowledge. His criticisms of policies which foster disease, impede prevention, and often misdirect AIDS research and AIDS programs are still, I suspect, valid. This is a spirited and humane work which lives up to its dedication 'Liber geographicus pro bono publico'.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent!
Review: Written in 1992, this book is still well worth reading by anyone, lay or expert, interested in the spread of HIV/AIDS. Readers with scanty technical knowledge of the virus, and no familiarity with what geographers do or how they think, need not fear. Gould is a master of exposition. Four especially illuminating chapters take us through the spread of HIV/AIDS within continental Africa, the nation of Thailand, the state of Ohio and the limits of the Bronx. As a geographer, Gould shows how grappling with the spatial dimension of HIV/AIDS yields both insight and useful knowledge. His criticisms of policies which foster disease, impede prevention, and often misdirect AIDS research and AIDS programs are still, I suspect, valid. This is a spirited and humane work which lives up to its dedication 'Liber geographicus pro bono publico'.