The Wisdom of Whores

Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS

By: Elizabeth Pisani

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Paperback | 1 September 2009 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"This is an utterly fascinating book. . . . Elizabeth Pisani writes with enormous verve and acerbity, her prose alive with anecdote and metaphor. . . . The Wisdom of Whores is a great read." -- Stephen Lewis, The Globe and Mail "The book will make you reconsider everything you thought you knew about HIV/AIDS." -- Katie Hunter - Foreign Policy

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