Books

Indigenous youngsters from two communities in northern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario were showing up not with with what looked like type 2 diabetes. Over the next few decades more children would confront what was turning into not only a medical but also a social and community challenge.

In Piecing the Puzzle, Larry Krotz chronicles the fascinating history of the Kenyan, Canadian, Belgian, and American research team that uncovered HIV/AIDS in Kenya, their scientific breakthroughs and setbacks, and their exceptional thirty-year relationship that began a new era of global health collaboration.

In The Uncertain Business of Doing Good, Larry Kotz explores the "good intentions" that underlie Westerners' urge to help Africa, focussing specifically on people involved in trying to end the Angolan civil war, AIDS research and the UNIM circumcision research project in Kenya, and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.