Publication date: 1998-12-31
Dewey code: 362.196979200944912
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Review Notes on the Plague Years: AIDS in Marseilles (Social Problems and Social Issues) / Aldine Transaction:In 1988 the author was sent down to Marseilles as leader of a team investigating the societal impact of the epidemic that had struck the seaport city. This book is one of the results of his investigation, detailing the community's response to the epidemic, and studying problem formation.
Authors
- Norman L. Letvin
- Paul Racz
Publication date: 1993-07
Dewey code: 616.0194
List Price: $172.25
Price: $172.25
Review Animal Models of HIV And Other Retroviral Infections / S. Karger AG (Switzerland):Animal models have proven of great importance in clarifying the immunopathogenesis of AIDS. This volume provides a timely description of studies in a diversity of animal models that elucidate important events in the immune containment of HIV infections. These studies involve the use of simian immunodeficiency virus-infected macaques, feline immunodeficiency virus- and feline leukemia virus-infected cats, human immunodeficiency virus-infected chimpanzees, macaques, rabbits and immunodeficient mice, and visna virus-infected sheep. These model systems are described and their unique value in studying AIDS is illustrated. This publication will give immunologists, virologists and pathologists a better understanding of the immune cellular events leading to the progression of AIDS.
Creator: Patricia D. Siplon
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-02
Dewey code: 362.1969792
List Price: $63.00
Price: $63.00
Review The Global Politics of AIDS / Lynne Rienner Publishers:With more than 40 million people living with HIV/AIDS - and more than 25 million dead from related diseases since the early 1980s - the need to understand the causes and impact of the pandemic is manifest. In response, "The Global Politics of AIDS" explores power and politics at multiple levels, ranging from individual behavior to corporate boardrooms to international institutions and forces. The authors combine careful scholarship with sensitivity to both the suffering of those afflicted and the frustration of those seeking to bring about meaningful change. All royalties from sales of the book will be donated to AIDS-related charities.
Publication date: 2007-04-01
List Price: $24.95
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Review Spirituality, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Theological Strategies for Behaviour Change / Kachere Series:It has now been twenty years since the Executive Commitee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, called upon churches worldwide to urgently address the issue of HIV/AIDS. The call arose out of a consultation on the theme 'HIV/AIDS and the Church as a Healing Community'. This book is written with a view to providing culturally relevant theological reflection on the issue of HIV/AIDS and to act as a resource in the combat of HIV/AIDS particularly in bringing about meaningful behaviour change.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-01-01
Dewey code: 616.979205
List Price: $40.00
Price: $39.43
Review Global AIDS: Myths & Facts / South End Press:AIDS is the most devastating communicable disease in history, and structures of poverty and injustice are magnifying the crisis in underresourced countries. More than 36 million people are infected with HIV/AIDS—the vast majority of them in the poor world, or in poor and marginalized communities within wealthy countries. And since AIDS was first recognized in the early 1980s, 13 million children have been orphaned and 22 million people have died from the disease. Irwin and Millen, co-authors of the critically praised Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor, demonstrate that it is morally imperative and practically feasible to control the spread of AIDS by overturning common myths about treatment and prevention. For example, it is often argued that ordinary citizens in rich countries can do little to fight AIDS in poor counties. But Irwin and Millen show how individual activists, students, health providers, and members of international health organizations have helped to play pivotal roles in lowering drug prices and securing increased funding for vaccine development. Activism and education by groups like ACT UP, Student Global AIDS Campaign, and various religious organizations is forcing national and international leaders to take greater responsibility for the global AIDS crisis. Features a comprehensive resource guide. Illustrated with photographs. Alexander Irwin is an assistant professor of religious studies at Amherst College. [+]Joyce Millen is Director of Research for the Institute for Health and Social Justice. Irwin and Millen are co-authors of Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor. James Orbinski, president of Doctors Without Borders, called Dying for Growth "deeply intelligent, thoroughly researched—a must-read for all citizens and activists committed to meaningful change. ".
Publication date: 1996-03
Dewey code: 016.6169792
List Price: $47.50
Price: $36.10
Review Consumer Reference Book And Index About HIV, AIDS, And Treatments / ABBE Publishers Association of Washington, D.:
Creator: Eva Klein
Publication date: 1986-05
Dewey code: 616
List Price: $183.50
Price: $183.50
Review Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (Chemical Immunology) (v. 37) / S. Karger AG (Switzerland):
Authors
- Lawrence O. Gostin
- Zita Lazzarini
Publication date: 1997-04-03
Dewey code: 349.730880814
List Price: $44.99
Price: $35.99
Review Human Rights and Public Health in the AIDS Pandemic / Oxford University Press, USA:Historically, the fields of public health and human rights have remained largely separate. The AIDS pandemic, however, made it clear that a complex relationship exists between the two fields. Women and children have proven to be extremely vulnerable to infection with HIV due to their inability to protect themselves in intimate relationships, their sexual exploitation, and their lack of economic and educational alternatives. On the other hand, coercive government policies aimed at controlling the AIDS pandemic often infringe on the rights of individuals known or suspected of having AIDS, and decrease the effectiveness of public health measures. Protecting and promoting human rights is becoming one of the key means of preserving the health of individuals and populations. A penetrating analysis of the close relationship between public health and human rights, this book makes a compelling case for synergy between the two fields. Using the AIDS pandemic as a lens, the authors demonstrate that human health cannot be maintained without respect for the dignity and rights of persons, and that human rights cannot be deemed adequate and comprehensive without ensuring the health of individuals and populations. In the course of their analysis, Gostin and Lazzarini tackle some of the most vexing issues of our time, including the universality of human rights and the counter-claims of cultural relativity. Taking a cue from environmental impact assessments, they propose a human rights impact assessment for examining health policies. Such a tool will be invaluable for evaluating real-world public health problems and is bound to become essential for teaching human rights in schools of public health, medicine, government, and law. [+]The volume critically examines such issues as HIV testing, screening, partner notification, isolation, quarantine, and criminalization of persons with HIV/AIDS, all within the framework of international human rights law. The authors evaluate the public health effects of a wide range of AIDS policies in developed as well as developing countries. The role of women in society receives special emphasis. Finally, the book presents three case histories that are important in the HIV/AIDS pandemic: discrimination and the transmission of HIV and tuberculosis in an occupational health care setting; breast feeding in the least developed countries; and confidentiality and the right of sexual partners to know of potential exposure to HIV. The cases challenge readers with some of the complex questions facing policy-makers, scientists, and public health professionals, and exemplify a method for analyzing these problems from a human rights perspective. Gostin and Lazzarini have written a book that will be a valuable addition to the libraries of public health teachers and practitioners, legal scholars, bioethicists, policy makers, and public rights activists.
Publication date: 2009-11
Dewey code: 362.196979200968
List Price: $39.95
Price: $36.03
Review Changing the Course of AIDS: Peer Education in South Africa and Its Lessons for the Global Crisis (Culture and Politics of Health Care Work) / Cornell University Press:Changing the Course of AIDS is an in-depth evaluation of a new and exciting way to create the kind of much-needed behavioral change that could affect the course of the global health crisis of HIV/AIDS. This case study from the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic demonstrates that regular workers serving as peer educators can be as-or even more-effective agents of behavioral change than experts who lecture about the facts and so-called appropriate health care behavior. After spending six years researching the response of large South African companies to the epidemic that is decimating their workforce as well as South African communities, David Dickinson describes the promise of this grassroots intervention-workers educating one another in the workplace and community-and the limitations of traditional top-down strategies. Dickinson's book takes us right into the South African workplace to show how effective and yet enormously complex peer education really is. We see what it means when workers directly tackle the kinds of sexual, gender, religious, ethnic, and broader social and political taboos that make behavior change so difficult, particularly when that behavior involves sex and sexuality. Dickinson's findings show that people who are not officially health care experts or even health care workers can be skilled and effective educators. In this book we see why peer education has so much to offer societies grappling with the HIV/AIDS epidemic and why those interested in changing behaviors to ameliorate other health problems like obesity, alcoholism, and substance abuse have so much to learn from the South African example.
Authors
- World Health Organization
Dewey code: 616
List Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00
Review Rapport de l'OMS sur l'épidémie de tabagisme, 2008: Le programme MPOWER / World Health Organization:L’OMS publie sous le titre Rapport de l’OMS sur l’épidémie de tabagisme, 2008 une première analyse exhaustive de la consommation de tabac et de la lutte antitabac dans le monde. Le rapport confirme que l’épidémie mondiale de tabagisme est l’une des plus grandes menaces des temps modernes pour la santé publique : si l’on ne fait rien, le nombre de morts pourrait atteindre 1 milliard au cours du XXIe siècle. L’épidémie se déplace vers le monde en développement, où se produiront 80% des décès liés au tabagisme d’iciquelques dizaines d’années. Ce mouvement est dû à la stratégie de l’industrie du tabac, qui vise les jeunes et lesadultes des pays en développement. Le rapport conclut que, malgré les progrès accomplis ces dernières années, presque tous les pays doivent faire davantage d’efforts. Actuellement, seulement 5% de la population mondiale est entièrement couverte par l’une quelconque des interventions essentielles qui ont notablement réduit la consommation de tabac dans les pays où elles ont été appliquées. Pour combattre efficacement l’épidémie, le Rapport de l’OMS sur l’épidémie mondiale de tabagisme, 2008 préconise six stratégies essentielles éprouvées – le programme MPOWER – qui offrent les meilleures chances de sauver des millions de vies.
Authors
- R. Michael Buckley MD
- Stephen John Gluckman MD
Publication date: 2002-04-03
Dewey code: 616.9792
List Price: $55.95
Price: $41.55
Review HIV Infection in Primary Care / Saunders:New therapies have changed the way doctors care for people with HIV, and have shifted treatment strategies to the outpatient setting. BUCKLEY - HIV INFECTION IN PRIMARY CARE is designed to give primary care providers concise and practical information on the diagnosis and management of patients infected with HIV. Part I, Early Infection, focuses on evaluating & testing patients at risk for HIV infection. Chapters will discuss how to monitor patients' immune system, when & how to treat them during this first stage, and keep them well for as long as possible. Part II focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of opportunistic infections and other manifestations of progressive infection. Part III discusses some special aspects of HIV infection, and the differential diagnosis of common syndromes in full-blown AIDS.
Authors
- Jorgen Sondergaard
- Carsten Sand Petersen
- Gunhild Lange Wantzin
- Kaare Weismann
Dewey code: 616
List Price: $77.95
Price: $57.00
Review Skin Signs in AIDS: A Textbook of AIDS / HIV Infections-related Dermatology / Wiley-Blackwell:
Creator: Archana Joshi
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-06-30
Dewey code: 306.70954
List Price: $71.95
Price: $35.34
Review Sexuality in the Time of AIDS / SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd:This volume presents and reviews a wide range of recent research on sexuality and sexual behaviours in India to better understand the patterns of risk among different sections of the Indian populace. Participants in India's HIV//AIDS campaign now recognize that the epidemic has great complexities which have to be understood in its entirety in order to combat it. The book contains three main components: an overview describing the HIV epidemic in India and the public and the non-governmental approaches; perspectives from communities and population sectors on premarital, marital and extra marital sexuality and the risk of transmission; and the lessons learnt in terms of research methodology and the development of new approaches to HIV//AIDS.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-11-01
Dewey code: 362.1969792
List Price: $60.00
Price: $49.95
Review Persuading People To Have Safer Sex: Applications of Social Science To the Aids Crisis (Lea's Communication Series) / Lawrence Erlbaum:Persuading People to Have Safer Sex offers a lucid, in-depth, student-friendly and academically thorough discussion of AIDS prevention and health persuasion. In so doing it provides an introduction to the ways that social scientific research can be brought to bear on a daunting health problem. Covering many aspects of the AIDS crisis, the book introduces readers to the severity of the AIDS problem and explains the epidemiology of the disease. It discusses why persuasion is so important, explicates cognitive theories of AIDS prevention, and notes the role emotions and communication play in safer sex prevention. It also discusses: *functions that unsafe sex plays in peoples' lives; *why people, notably minority women, frequently choose to engage in unsafe sex; and *social factors underlying the spread of AIDS in urban America and portions of Africa. As a resource for introducing students to the role that theory and research play in health communication and psychology, the volume is appropriate for use in communication, journalism, social psychology, and public health courses, and will be of value to scholars, researchers, and all who seek to understand the use of persuasion in changing behavior.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2001-11-22
Dewey code: 362.196979200944
List Price: $50.00
Price: $35.00
Review AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills, Literary Cures / University of Wisconsin Press:The deluge of metaphors triggered in 1981 in France by the first public reports of what would turn out to be the AIDS epidemic spread with far greater speed and efficiency than the virus itself. To understand why it took France so long to react to the AIDS crisis, AIDS in French Culture analyzes the intersections of three discourses-the literary, the medical, and the political-and traces the origin of French attitudes about AIDS back to nineteenth-century anxieties about nationhood, masculinity, and sexuality.
Publication date: 1994-09
Dewey code: 362.1969792
List Price: $47.95
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Review Unstable Frontiers: Technomedicine And the Cultural Politics of "Curing" AIDS / University of Minnesota Press:John Erni's heartfelt and insightful book is a valuable contribution to the study of the cultural politics of AIDS. Jeff NunokawaPrinceton UniversityThe "cure" for AIDS: The search goes on, keeping pace with our belief that AIDS is incurable. How such a seeming paradox works—and how it may well work against the proper treatment of the disease—is the subject of Unstable Frontiers, a probing, critical look at the cultural politics behind the quest for a cure for AIDS. This massive commercial and scientific project, John Erni suggests, actually hinges on our contradictory definitions of the disease as curable and incurable at the same time. Drawing on diverse sources, from popular media to medical literature to cultural theory, he shows how the dual discourse of curability/incurability frames the way we think about and act on issues of medical treatment for AIDS. His work makes a major advance in our understanding of—and, perhaps, humane response to—a national crisis. In his critique of the logic and fantasies underlying the double definition of AIDS, Erni explores a broad range of issues: the scientific paradigm used to develop AZT; the politics of alternative treatment practices, of clinical drug trials, and of AIDS activism; and the notions of time and temporality operating in AIDS treatment science. He also addresses the problematic popular themes, such as "AIDS is invariably fatal" and "Knowledge = Cure. " Unique in its approach to a social and political issue still in the making, the book reveals how AIDS has challenged technomedicine's historical position of authority—and in doing so, recasts this challenge in a powerful and ultimately hopeful way.
Edition: Pap/Com
Publication date: 2007-03-30
Dewey code: 616.9792065154
List Price: $95.00
Price: $35.96
Review Music at the Edge: The Music Therapy Experiences of a Musician with Aids / Taylor & Francis:Through the words of the therapist and the music of the patient, BMusic at the Edge allows the reader to experience a complete music therapy journey. Francis, a trained musician who was facing death from AIDS, challenges Colin Lee, to help him clarify his feelings about living, and dying. In doing so, Francis helped Lee to clarify some of Lee's own feelings about this particularly demanding form of therapeutic work and to question the framework of the therapeutic relationship in palliative care. The CD is a central part of the book, allowing readers to hear extracts from Frances' improvisations which illuminate the text and provide the musical "voice" of the patient. Transcribed music allows all those able to read music to follow and play Francis' improvisations. This deeply moving book offers an unique opportunity to understand how the transcendent power of music can enable expression of painful feelings more accurately than words.
Authors
- Vivian Brown
- Pauline Fitzpatrick
- Abigail T. Panter
- George Huba
- Trudy A Larson
- Measurement Grp
Publication date: 2001-03-23
Dewey code: 362.1969792
List Price: $60.00
Price: $49.95
Review Evaluating HIV/Aids Treatment Programs: Innovative Methods and Findings / Routledge:Evaluating HIV/AIDS Treatment Programs offers new strategies for providing care for substance abusers with HIV/AIDS. This volume offers specific, proven programs designed to help underserved populations-including women, Latinos, Haitians, adolescents, and rural people-overcome linguistic, cultural, racial, and economic barriers to obtaining health care. It also offers specialized medical care models that work within the context of a continuum of services in a medical clinic.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-09-24
Dewey code: 813
List Price: $49.95
Price: $39.09
Review AIDS And Mental Health Practice: Clinical and Policy Issues / Routledge:Addressing contemporary issues faced by individuals with HIV/AIDS, AIDS and Mental Health Practice: Clinical and Policy Issues provides psychologists, psychiatrists, and counselors with research and case studies that prove individualized strategies are more effective in meeting patients' needs. The chapters, written by experts in the field, give you ways to offer services to several of the different populations commonly ignored in AIDS and mental health literature. As a result, this book will provide professionals in the field and students in training with the most current practice information about mental health practice and HIV/AIDS. AIDS and Mental Health Practice will help you understand the diverse needs of individuals with HIV/AIDS and organize programs to serve these populations.
Authors
- Tony Barnett
- Alan Whiteside
Publication date: 2002-09-06
Dewey code: 362.1969792
List Price: $99.95
Price: $57.00
Review Aids in the Twenty-First Century / Palgrave Macmillan:This groundbreaking book presents compelling data and research which reveals the shocking social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS on a global scale. Barnett and Whiteside-experts in the field for over 15 years-argue that it is vital to not only look at the disease in terms of prevention and treatment, but to also consider consequences which affect households, communities, companies, governments, and countries. This is a major contribution toward understanding the global public health crisis, as well as the relationship between poverty, inequality, and infectious diseases.
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Notes on the Plague Years: AIDS in Marseilles (Social Problems and Social Issues), Animal Models of HIV And Other Retroviral Infections, The Global Politics of AIDS, Spirituality, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Theological Strategies for Behaviour Change, Global AIDS: Myths & Facts, Consumer Reference Book And Index About HIV, AIDS, And Treatments, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (Chemical Immunology) (v. 37), Human Rights and Public Health in the AIDS Pandemic, Changing the Course of AIDS: Peer Education in South Africa and Its Lessons for the Global Crisis (Culture and Politics of Health Care Work), Rapport de l'OMS sur l'épidémie de tabagisme, 2008: Le programme MPOWER, HIV Infection in Primary Care, Skin Signs in AIDS: A Textbook of AIDS / HIV Infections-related Dermatology, Sexuality in the Time of AIDS, Persuading People To Have Safer Sex: Applications of Social Science To the Aids Crisis (Lea's Communication Series), AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills, Literary Cures, Unstable Frontiers: Technomedicine And the Cultural Politics of "Curing" AIDS, Music at the Edge: The Music Therapy Experiences of a Musician with Aids, Evaluating HIV/Aids Treatment Programs: Innovative Methods and Findings, AIDS And Mental Health Practice: Clinical and Policy Issues, Aids in the Twenty-First CenturyTop headlines: A Muslim Letter to Christians: In an unprecedented letter, Muslim leaders across the globe invite the worlds Christians to the table. ›14:33 11 Oct, Thu Q&A: Shawn Hornbecks Parents: The parents of kidnap victim Shawn Hornbeck speak out on the sentencing of their sons tormentor and the status of the boys recovery. ›20:50 12 Oct, Fri Cheney discussed inquiries into CIA leak: Vice President Dick Cheney talked with top White House officials about how to respond to reporters' inquiries into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative, according to a court filing. ›15:23 3 Jul, Fri Take the kids off the tourist track in NYC: Certainly visitors to New York have their pick of world-class and iconic sites the Museum of Natural History, the Empire State Building and Central Park but there is a lot more to New York than the tourist track. ›21:46 2 Jul, Thu Study: Tropical rain band shifting north: Earth's most prominent rain band, near the equator, has been moving north at an average rate of almost a mile a year for three centuries, likely because of a warming world, scientists say. ›16:39 2 Jul, Thu Airline crew bares all to get passengers attention: Air New Zealand has hit on a novel way to make sure even the most jaded flyers keep their eyes glued on its flight safety briefing. ›19:19 3 Jul, Fri Key Senate Dems trim cost of health care bill: Determined to advance President Barack Obama's health care agenda, key Senate Democrats are calling for a government-run insurance option to compete with private plans, as well as a $750-per-worker annual fee on larger companies that do not offer coverage to employees. ›19:21 2 Jul, Thu Gross: Banks Claim the Credit Crisis is Over. 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