false 2602190 6 <B>A flame-throwing epidemiologist talks about sex, drugs, and the mistakes (dismal), ideologies (vicious), and hopes (realistic) of international AIDS prevention.</B><BR><BR>When people ask Elizabeth Pisani what she does for a living, she says, "sex and drugs." As an epidemiologist researching AIDS, she's been involved with international efforts to halt the disease for fourteen years. With swashbuckling wit and fierce honesty, she dishes on herself and her colleagues as they try to prod reluctant governments to fund HIV prevention for the people who need it most&#151;drug injectors, gay men, sex workers, and johns.<BR><BR>Pisani chats with flamboyant Indonesian transsexuals about their boob jobs and watches Chinese streetwalkers turn away clients because their SUVs aren't nice enough. With verve and clarity, she shows the general reader how her profession really works; how easy it is to draw wrong conclusions from "objective" data; and, shockingly, how much money is spent so very badly. "Exhibit A": the 45 billion taxpayer dollars the Bush administration is committing to international AIDS programs. 12 illustrations. 2626827 2 6 2008 The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS total:151|5:43|4:70|3:34|2:4|1:0| 151 605 367 52 4 1 false false Sun Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 21:09:58 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 21:56:17 -0800 2009 our perception, of AIDS and why it spreads. Lots of received wisdom gets demolished here -- I felt pretty ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 13:22:09 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 13:29:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 06 14:21:57 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 14:32:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 10 21:40:19 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 21:40:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 17 15:16:37 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 15:22:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed May 21 06:34:22 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 21:33:21 -0700 2008 Perhaps if the subje...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 29 20:35:38 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 20:44:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 00:14:43 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 05:40:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 27 02:37:24 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 02:45:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jun 05 05:21:12 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 05:33:14 -0700 2008 http://www/the-wisdom.com/reviews]]> 3 0 false false Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 09:52:59 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 08:03:12 -0700 2009
The only drawback to the book is...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 28 21:56:45 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 10 18:16:48 -0800 2009
Chapters 1-3 were really...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 05 08:41:31 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 08:55:06 -0700 2008
She does a nice job of detailing how the development/international aid politics interfer...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jul 21 07:44:51 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 07:46:03 -0700 2008
"This is an utterly fascinating book. I must admit that it's been growing on me since I read it, the arguments and language reverberating in my mind. Elizabet...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 14:26:35 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 09:25:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 05:39:12 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 05 09:27:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 09 15:44:10 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 15:51:44 -0700 2009 Fasinating look into sexual politics. Pisani is razor sharp and a refreshing first-hand witness to real life sexual practices and attitudes that aren't reported by even the most "enlightened" documentators, such as the World Health Organization.

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