The histories of HIVs : the emergence of the multiple viruses that caused the AIDS epidemics /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2021]
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 263 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:	English
Series:	Perspectives on global health Perspectives on global health.
Subject:	HIV (Viruses) -- History. HIV (Viruses) -- Africa -- History. HIV infections -- History. HIV infections. HIV (Viruses) Africa. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13514574

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Other authors / contributors:	Schneider, William H. (William Howard), 1945- editor.
ISBN:	9780821447444 0821447440 9780821424582
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 26, 2021).
Summary:	"In this interdisciplinary collection, experts provide the most complete description to date of the often ignored and underappreciated features of the history of the multiple human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) responsible for the global AIDS pandemic"--
Other form:	Print version: The histories of HIVs Athens : Ohio University Press, 2021. 9780821424582

Table of Contents:

Preface / François Simon
Acknowledgements / William H. Schneider
The Histories of HIVs: The Multiple Viruses that Caused the AIDS Epidemic / William H. Schneider
Explaining the Emergence of HIVs / Preston A. Marx
The Origins of HIVs and the Epidemiology of AIDS: An Introduction / Ernest M. Drucker
From Chimps to Humans: An Historical Epidemiology of HIV Beginnings / Tamara Giles-Vernick and Stephanie Rupp
A Social Virus: The Emergence of HIV-1 in Colonial Kinshasa, 1900-1960 / Didier Gondola and Amandine Lauro
The Cameroonian Puzzle: Historical and Virological Aspects of the Emergence of HIV-1 groups O, N, and P / Guillaume Lachenal
The Emergence and Spread of HIV-2 in Ivory Coast and Guinea-Bissau / Jorge Varanda
Histories of HIVs in Broader Perspective / William H. Schneider.

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