Wisdom of Whores

Elizabeth Pisani

RRP: £17.99

Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS

Publication Date : 08/05/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

A readable, entertaining and non-worthy book about AIDS, which is neither over-academic nor over-apocalyptic. Pisani has spent 10 years working as a scientist in the AIDS industry, and here she illustrates solid science with ribald tales from the frontlines of sex and drugs. It also explains how we could shut down HIV everywhere except sub Saharan Africa with less money than we already have, but how politics, ideology and money have bulldozed scientific evidence and common sense.

Publisher's description:

Offers an overview of a universe of brothels and bureaucracies, of bickering junkies and squabbling charities, of men who sell sex and men who would rather prohibit it. Illustrating science with tales from the frontlines of sex and drugs, this book explains how we could shut down HIV everywhere except sub-Saharan Africa.

ISBN: 9781847080004