The Slow Plague: A Geography of the AIDS Pandemic

Preface: Why a geographer writes about AIDS.

Acknowledgements: Intellectual Antennae.

Prologue: New Plagues for Old: The Horseman Rides Again.

1. The Killer: HIV and What it does.

2. The Origins of HIV: Closing an Open Question?.

3. The Thin Tendrils of Effects.

4. Sex on a Set: A Backcloth for Disaster.

5. Transmission Break: The Geography of the Condom.

6. How Things Spread: Hierarchical Jumps and Geographic Oozings.

7. Africa: A Continent in Catastrophe.

8. Thailand: How to Optimize an Epidemic.

9. America: Leaks in the System.

10. The Bronx: Poverty, Crack and HIV.

11. The Response: How Many Bureaucrats can Dance on the Head of a Pin?.

12. Time but no Space: the Failure of a Paradigm.

13. The Geography in Confidentiality.

14. Education and Planning: Predicting the Next Maps.

15. Herd Immunity: Riding the Coattails of the HIV.

16. Epilogue: Old Plagues for New.

Changing worlds, changing genres: a bibliographic essay.

Index.