Viral voyages : tracing AIDS in Latin America / Lina Meruane ; translated by Andrea Rosenberg.

Viajes virales. English

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

x, 244 pages ; 23 cm.

First edition.

Translated from the Spanish.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index.

Beginning the journey -- Logbook of an HIV-positive voyage -- Viral voyagers -- Itinerant infirmity -- The comings and goings of the infectious tourist -- Back to the nations of death -- Female disappearance syndrome -- Happy hour?, or the cocktail era.