Susie Bright's Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today, on my In Bed podcast, we look into the politics of AIDS, and why "telling the big lies" is endemic to every funding and policy opportunity. I interview author and epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani about her new book The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS— a...
This Book Is For You (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS by Elizabeth Pisani In her exceptionally candid, accessible, and fascinating book, Pisani talks about her work in the field as an epidemiologist, studying patterns of HIV infection in Indonesia, China, East Timor, and the Phillipines, and developing policies to combat it. The book is filled with conversations, both enlightening and...
The Bookseller to the Stars (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
One of the most daring and socially-essential books of this year is ‘The Wisdom of Whores’ by Elizabeth Pisani, of which I was lucky enough to attend her launch recently . In her book, she talks about sex in a wonderfully frank and exciting way, not unlike a Kim Cattrall, Sex and the City monologue which is so wholeheartedly refreshing in the same way from a female author,...
Tyee - Home (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Author Elizabeth Pisani on AIDS treatment, drug abuse, and hard-headed compassion.
Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Prices are here and the pointer is from Elizabeth Pisani. Comments are closed!
Unspun (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Instead of bickering over anal intercourse, sworn depositions, how many tmes a day civil servants should pray, Bolehland’s politicians would be well advised to take immediate action to bolster an industry where Malaysians are getting shortchanged. Wisdom of Whores authr Elizabeth Pisani is wondering why Malay girls are fetching such low prices and at the bottom [...]
Seth's blog (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
At a bookstore reading, I learned that Elizabeth Pisani wrote The Wisdom of Whores — about doing HIV epidemiology among sex workers — because she wanted to have more of an effect on HIV prevention programs. Scientific papers didn’t have much effect unless a journalist wrote about them. Journalists, she found, tended to focus on [...]
Dial "M" for Musicology (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
I was recently going through the sometimes frustrating process of getting permissions from rights-holders so I could include certain visual illustrations and musical examples in my forthcoming book (Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections). One of the questions I was asked...
Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
In More Sex is Safer Sex Steven Landsburg famously argued (based on work by Michael Kremer) that if more people, especially more sexually conservative people, had sex the AIDS epidemic could be reduced. Landsburg wrote: Imagine a country where almost...
Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Elizabeth Pisani has a piece today that roughly outlines where we are with AIDS today. There’s two entirely different epidemics: the African one, which is indeed largely heterosexual, and the one everywhere else, which is: The second epidemic covers the rest of the globe. Nine out of ten humans (and three in ten of those infected with [...]
Crunchy Con (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
More on the way political correctness has corrupted the world's fight against AIDS. Here's a review of Elizabeth Pisani's new book "The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS," which is about how the worldwide AIDS bureaucracy...
Phawker (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
FRESH AIR In her new film, Savage Grace, the actress Julianne Moore plays the wife of the heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune, a middle-class woman who’s married up, but who craves more than the comforts money can buy. As her emotional neediness gets entangled with her son’s, boundaries of all kinds get broken — [...]
Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008 | Other
As a teenager Elizabeth Pisani discovered that she liked sneaking into the "girlie bars" of Hong Kong and talking to the hookers and the johns. Ordinarily one wouldn't expect such peculiar hobbies to pay off in a dazzling career. But...
Globalisation Institute Blog (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Something we perhaps don't do enough of around here: recommend books for you. So here is one such recommendation, The Wisdom of Whores by Elizabeth Pisani. No, despite its title it's not about bringing things learnt commercially into your own boudoir, it's an examination of the world of bureaucrats, brothels and the business of AIDS by an insider. An insider to the bureaucracy I hope you'll understand....
