The Wisdom of Whores

副标题: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS

ISBN: 9780393337655

出版社: W. W. Norton & Company

出版年: 2009-9-21

页数: 400

定价: USD 16.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

As an epidemiologist researching AIDS, Elizabeth Pisani has been involved with international efforts to halt the disease for fourteen years. With swashbuckling wit, fierce honesty, and more than a little political incorrectness, 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. With verve and clarity, Pisani shows the general reader how her profession really works; how easy it is to draw wrong conclusions from objective data; and, shockingly, how much money is spent so very badly.