Eizu joho jiten [AIDS information dictionary]
by Hakubikan Shuppan Henshubu [Editorial Department of Hakubikan Publishing Co.]
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Tokyo: Hakubikan Shuppan, 1987. Paperback. 206p., text in Japanese, very good paperback in wraps. Opens with discussion of cases of AIDS dementia in Japan; the disease is explained as being from the US which is at the front lines of AIDS; includes translation of latest sex manuals from US for gays/bis, for women, for drug users, etc; discussion about early AIDS cases in Japan; discussion of AIDS panic. Some cases of PWAs introduced (Japanese tango dancer and her private life in New York); some rather unusual theories (that according to a certain US magazine, AIDS can be transmitted by mosquitoes; that if you drink Yakult probiotic yogurt products you can cure AIDS); ends with introduction of how sex practices may change in age of AIDS: "An encouragement of masturbation.
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 162830
- Title
- Eizu joho jiten [AIDS information dictionary]
- Author
- Hakubikan Shuppan Henshubu [Editorial Department of Hakubikan Publishing Co.]
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hakubikan Shuppan
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1987
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gay Studies; 1980S; History of Science and Medicine; Japan; Dictionary;
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