The Wisdom of Whores

Author: Elizabeth Pisani
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0393066622
Category: Medical

The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS

A flame-throwing epidemiologist talks about sex, drugs, and the mistakes (dismal), ideologies (vicious), and hopes (realistic) of international AIDS prevention. Download The Wisdom of Whores medical books for free.
/strong>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-drug injectors, gay men, sex workers, and johns. Pisani chats with flamboyant Indonesian transsexuals about their boob jobs and wa Get The Wisdom of Whores our bestseller medical books.

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