Bøger af Shawn C. Smallman

Shows how the varying histories and cultures of the nations of Latin America have influenced the course of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This work demonstrates that a disease spread in an intimate manner is profoundly shaped by impersonal forces. It explains that in Latin America the AIDS pandemic has fractured into a series of subepidemics.

For more than half a century, the Brazilian army used fear and censorship to alter history and create its own political myths. Drawing on oral histories, secret police documents and other sources recently made available, the author offers a revisionist interpretation of Brazil's political history.