The Second Plague of Europe: AIDS Prevention And Sexual Transmission Among Men in Western Europe (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies)
by Michael Pollak
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Author: Michael PollakEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1994-10-24
ISBN: 1560243066
Number of pages: 123
Publisher: Routledge
Book Reviews of The Second Plague of Europe: AIDS Prevention And Sexual Transmission Among Men in Western Europe (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies)
Book Review: Dated and Boring
Summary: 1 Stars
I think a lot of people may take offense to the bombastic title. There have been several other diseases in Europe that killed more people than AIDS has: smallpox, influenza, syphilis, etc. Though any AIDS-related death is tragic anywhere, Western Europe has one of the lowest HIV infections rates of anywhere in the world. If it's a "plague" in that region, what would one say about Southern Africa or Southeastern Asia where the numbers and percentages are much higher.
On the one hand, cross-country comparisons help us think beyond our borders and probably take awhile to amass. Still. this book got really boring really quickly. Page after page of "this country did this, but that country did that" becomes irritating after awhile.
Finally, this book is dated. It was published before HIV medicines greatly improved in 1996. It was published before the EU formed and migration across Europe greatly increased. In a way, it was published as Eastern Europe was abandoning Communism and becoming more engaged with Western Europe. Today it would be silly, and possibly offensive, to discuss HIV in Western Europe without thinking about its relation to Eastern Europe.
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