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A review by library_hungry
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS by Elizabeth Pisani
3.0
This was a very interesting and well-written book, a fun look at the world of AIDS research, if you'd believe it. I learned a lot about the international public policy system, and a lot about prostitution and the underworld in different Asian countries.
The only drawback to the book is something you can't blame the author for--you can't help but get bogged down in long organization names, acronyms, amounts of money. Describing international politics inevitably results in long paragraphs, just because everything that happens has a list of countries behind it, and the amounts they all gave, and which long-named NGO they gave it to, and which long list of countries it was spent in. There is no way to avoid it, and no way to avoid getting just a little bogged down in it.
But just a little. A very interesting book in a lot of ways.
The only drawback to the book is something you can't blame the author for--you can't help but get bogged down in long organization names, acronyms, amounts of money. Describing international politics inevitably results in long paragraphs, just because everything that happens has a list of countries behind it, and the amounts they all gave, and which long-named NGO they gave it to, and which long list of countries it was spent in. There is no way to avoid it, and no way to avoid getting just a little bogged down in it.
But just a little. A very interesting book in a lot of ways.