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AIDS on the Scale of the Social - A review of Robert Thornton, Unimagined community: Sex, networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa. University of California Press2008.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2009

Ann Kelly
Ann Kelly
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Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK E-mail: [email protected]
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BioSocieties , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , March 2009 , pp. 99 - 103
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Copyright © London School of Economics and Political Science 2009

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