Tinderbox
How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · March 5, 2013
"Remarkable... reads like a detective novel."—The New Yorker In this groundbreaking work that reads like a detective novel, longtime Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned the flames.
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- Who it’s for
- A reported history with epidemiological questions and the pull of a mystery.
- Genres
- HIV & AIDS, African History, Epidemiology
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, March 5, 2013
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"Remarkable... reads like a detective novel."—The New Yorker In this groundbreaking work that reads like a detective novel, longtime Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned the flames.
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Drawing on remarkable new science, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic, and in a riveting narrative that stretches from colonial Leopoldville to 1980s San Francisco to South Africa today, it reveals how human hands unleashed this epidemic and can now overcome it, if only we learn the lessons of the past.
History in Motion
A reported history with epidemiological questions and the pull of a mystery.
Come here for
- A mystery-like account of AIDS’s colonial roots
- A narrative spanning Leopoldville, San Francisco, and South Africa
Expect
- A serious look at how human actions shaped an epidemic
- New science alongside lessons for overcoming AIDS
Where it sits
| HIV & AIDS | 56% |
|---|---|
| African History | 40% |
| Epidemiology | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- HIV & AIDS
- African History
- Gay Studies
- Authors
- Craig Timberg, Daniel Halperin
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- March 5, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- HIV & AIDS