Before HIV

Sexuality, Fertility and Mortality in East Africa, 1900-1980
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-726533-8
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 862 g

Reihe: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs

This book addresses two of the most important questions in modern African history: the causes of rapid population growth, and the origins of the HIV pandemic. It examines three societies on the Uganda-Tanzania border whose distinctive histories shed new light on both of these phenomena. This was the region where HIV in Africa first became a mass rural epidemic, and also where HIV infection rates first began to decline significantly.
Before HIV argues that only by analysing the long history of changes in sexual behaviour and attitudes can the shape of Africa's regional epidemics be fully understood. It traces the emergence of the sexual culture which permitted HIV to spread so quickly during the late 1970s and 1980s back to the middle decades of the twentieth century, a period when new patterns of socialization and sexual networking became established. The case studies examined in this book also provide new insights into
the relationship between economic and social development and trends in fertility and mortality during the twentieth century. These three societies experienced the onset of rapid population growth at different moments and for different reasons, but in each case study area the key mechanisms appear to
have been a decline in child mortality, a shortening of birth intervals, and a marked decline in primary and secondary sterility.

Zielgruppe

Historians of Africa and other academics studying Africa, including geographers, sociologists, and anthropologists; HIV researchers (academic, government, and NGO); Demographers (academic, government, and NGO)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doyle, Shane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Infektionskrankheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Prostitution und Sexindustrie: Soziale & Ethische Themen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin HIV, AIDS

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1: Sexuality and fertility in the pre-colonial period
2: Disease and mortality, 1860-1925
3: Early colonial sexuality and fertility
4: Marriage and sexuality in Buganda, 1925-69
5: Prostitution in Buhaya, 1925-1969
6: Ankole: marriage and the ethnicity of sex, 1925-69
7: Fertility in Ankole, Buganda and Buhaya, 1925-6
8: Disease and death, 1925-196
9: Sexuality, mortality, disease and fertility in the 1970S
Conclusion And Epilogue: AIDS and demographic change in historical context

Über Autor(innen)

Doyle, Shane
Shane Doyle was educated at Cambridge and SOAS. Currently Senior Lecturer in African History at the University of Leeds, he was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, and before that Assistant Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. His current research on the history of sexuality and demographic change in East Africa has been funded by the AHRC, British Academy and the ESRC.

Shane Doyle was educated at Cambridge and SOAS. Currently Senior Lecturer in African History at the University of Leeds, he was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, and before that Assistant Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. His current research on the history of sexuality and demographic change in East Africa has been funded by the AHRC, British Academy and the
ESRC.