https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Other-Disease https://booksandideas.net/The-Other-Disease 2015-10-01T05:30:00Z text/html en Society International Colonialism epidemiology <span lang='fr'>tuberculosis</span> <p>Why can't we control tuberculosis? With this fundamental question, Christian McMillen's latest book shows how the flawed scientific response to the disease is tied to the Western world's colonial past and its narratives of ‘sameness' v. ‘othernerss'.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Searching-for-the-Origins-of-AIDS https://booksandideas.net/Searching-for-the-Origins-of-AIDS 2015-07-01T22:00:00Z text/html en Guillaume Lachenal International History Colonialism medicine Africa sexuality aids Institut français epidemiology <p>The question of the origin of <span class="caps">AIDS</span> has given rise to a wealth of studies. Moving away from conspiracy theories or culturalist readings, Guillaume Lachenal shows that the key issue is retracing the colonial, epidemiological, and sexual context that fostered the propagation of the virus rather than identifying a specific cause.</p>