(Part 2) Best aids books according to redditors

> Erotica was her using her power to make an uncompromising album about sex and AIDS and freaky shit but telling you it’s not freaky to be into freaky shit. It wasn’t her best album, but it was a brave one!

It was an incredibly risky move for her, especially given the period. To give some context, pop culture was considerably less-sexual in the very beginning of the 1990s in the wake of the AIDS crisis, which was impacting not only queer and POC communities on the fringe but also mainstream society. The explicitly exuberant sexuality of Madonna’s Erotica era was a world away from the chaste female-led soft pop and adult contemporary of the Wilson Phillips, Amy Grants and Roxettes that had been dominating the cultural conversation for the early years of the decade; and as you said, it was really brave of her to do so. To make such a sex-positive and queer-positive album in the days of “No glove no love” was groundbreaking, and certainly influential.

(For more information about what queer life was like in the early 1990s, I’d recommend Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life In America for an incredible analysis of what life was like for already-marginalized communities living in the shadow of an epidemic.)

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There were two distinct emergences of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. One was among gay (and predominantly white) men – the first cases, in 1982, were from two gay white flight attendants who had travelled to (and presumably had sex in) the United States. A sample set of blood specimens was taken soon after from 250 gay men in Johannesburg - with a 12.8% positivity rate. However, HIV crossing over from this population to the larger (black/African) population, and being the source of the present day epidemic, is unlikely.

Where that epidemic arises is rooted in the larger epidemiological behavior of the virus across Sub-Saharan Africa. This is a very long story but I’ll try to be as concise as I can. HIV has been a functional virus in humans for a century at least, only it didn't begin to spread in any substantial degree until colonial development of the lower continent began to include the growth of trade centers connected by roads and by rivers travelled frequently by boats. HIV, like most infectious diseases, requires proximity; that is, it requires a significantly dense population that it can “jump” from one person to another at an effective enough rate to maintain its spread. For the first 50 or so years of its life in humans, it was too isolated – one or two individuals infected in a village, who became sick and died before they were able to spread it to anyone outside the village. However, with roads and trade centers and places where one could go to work (usually mining) there came both high concentrations of people and a sex trade.

So from the 1950s and 1960s on, there was a steady growth of an urban and regional network capable of ever more efficiently spreading the virus. Enter South African migrant workers – men travelling within the wider region (often to Malawi, which had a high HIV prevalence) to earn money in mining operations and other manual labor fields, some of whom would acquire HIV from sex workers, and when returning home to their regular partners in South Africa, would infect them. The first cases among this population were in 1987, and by 1991, heterosexual-attributed transmission reached (and then exceeded) homosexual transmission in South Africa.

Two other factors leading to the spread of HIV in South Africa (especially in black/African communities): low circumcision prevalence and high multiple concurrent partner prevalence. Circumcision significantly reduces the risk for HIV acquisition from a female partner – and in South Africa, there is not a high prevalence of traditional circumcision, and only in recent years has circumcision been encouraged as an HIV prevention tactic. Second, multiple concurrent sexual partners in southern Africa (not everywhere, it varies by region/tribe, but was quite prevalent) meant it was both common and socially acceptable for nonmonogamy to occur. And this, of course, significantly compounded the spread of HIV.

Sources:
http://www.avert.org/history-aids-south-africa.htm

http://www.consultancyafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=887:sexual-networks-and-multiple-concurrent-sexual-partnerships&catid=61:hiv-aids-discussion-papers&Itemid=268

http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/12/09-072975/en/

http://www.amazon.com/Tinderbox-Sparked-Epidemic-Finally-Overcome/dp/0143123009/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377971556&sr=8-1&keywords=tinderbox

And I have a master’s in Public Health.

There's a lot of research on this, if you are really curious pick up Invisible People (https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-People-Pandemic-Humanitarian-Catastrophe/dp/0743257553 ) It's a longer book but worth the read. The Reagan administration basically caused the disease to proliferate at crazy rates because they stigmatized it and drove it underground.

Actually, rhetoric of science is a rather burgeoning field. Check out Alan Gross's The Rhetoric of Science and Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.


Also, honorable mentions for Latour's Science in Action and Sontag's Illness as Metaphor,

I'm going to give you some book suggestions:

https://www.amazon.com/Z-ECG-Rhythm-Interpretation/dp/0803610432

This is an older but still valid book that's written in a very accessible way.

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https://www.amazon.com/AACN-Essentials-Progressive-Nursing-Fourth/dp/1260116735/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=pccn+aacn&qid=1571621019&sr=8-1

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AACN books tend to be very dry, but the information is solid.

I'd read something (I think that it was maybe And the Band Played On that said that the gay influence really took hold in the late 40s early 50s?

I could be wrong, but I think that's where I read it.

https://www.amazon.com/Punishing-Disease-HIV-Criminalization-Sickness/dp/0520291603/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=trevor+hoppe&qid=1572238748&sr=8-1

You stop aids by providing services to those who are at risk. That means needle shares for junkies and safe working conditions for prostitutes. Making prostitution legal gives prostitutes power to refuse service and to enforce safe safe sex practices. If you don't believe me believe an epidemiologist who works for the UN. Wisdom of Whores

Busy making the ads run on time for Lord Walmart and the Duke of Target, and no access to academic libraries at my work place, but....

to get a sense of the feeling that people out there care about intellectual life and community around it
http://www.cnps.org/
http://makezine.com/

for working class artists
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/4/93.04.10.x.html

for self taught scientists making breakthroughs
http://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Memories-Thirteen-Years-Family/dp/0226542378/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342117568&sr=8-1&keywords=cynthia+moss
or almost any of major, mostly female, field scientists making major breakthroughs in animal behavior in the last century (Katy Payne, Jane Goodall)

for strategy of self teaching medicine in the AIDS crisis (haven't read the actual book, but I know the actual people who went and learned the science to the level of professionals)
http://www.amazon.com/Impure-Science-Activism-Politics-Knowledge/dp/0520214455

for GI bill allowing access to US education
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/life_20.html
http://articles.boston.com/2009-09-10/ae/29265095_1_gi-bill-higher-education-authors

for rhetoric of 68 occupy movement
http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/graffiti.htm

eh, figure out the connections yourself.

for evidence of academic training being sort of a scam, read the OP

Or

The number of jobs listed with the American Historical Association fell 23.8 percent in 2008-9 and the total jobs listed -- 806 -- was the smallest in a decade. And the 23.8 percent figure doesn't reflect the extent of the drop: A survey by the AHA of those departments that posted jobs found that about 15 percent of searches were called off after positions were listed.

Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/04/nojobs#ixzz20R1XSZcr
Inside Higher Ed

Cf with number of people who think history is interesting.

I could find no references to dolphin behavior studies on international shipping company websites, however, I do have to admit that the top references to dolphin behavior on google are all private companies, e.g. seaworld, the discovery channel. So maybe it's true that capitalism does better at giving people a chance at joy than academia. I suppose my day job funds tropical alpine field botany pretty well too.

for academia as hoodwinking, weeding, and monopolistic institution, see
also see grades, access to academic journals, library access, tenure, student loan debt, etc.

For population on earth.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/4/93.04.10.x.html
The 99th Percentile is just shy of 100 million people. See calculator.

For fact that there are smart people out in them fields, I'm citing Imogen Juanita Shaw, from Oklahoma, 1918-1993. She might be thinking of her husband. Of his 5 best friends, he was the only one who survived (gang warfare) into his thirties. He was able to parlay his friendship with a mob family into opening a restaurant, but when the mob boss was assasinated in the fifties, he lost everything and became an alcoholic. He used to build beatiful sculptures in his garage and read every history book he could get his hands on.

for disruptive effects of internet, google mubarak. Also observe what you just typed, and cf with academic research libraries.
For further information, go read a lot of books, and remember, underneath the paving stones, the beach.