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AIDs & HIV eBooks

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  • Before They Left Us

    InBefore They Left Us, Rosemary Davis explores all the twists and turns of San Francisco’s streets on a mission to find her identity, both as a woman and as an artist. The Midwesterner finds herself in the warm embrace of a diverse community. She and her cronies experience not only the exhilarating final days of disco and the changing political scene, but also the jolting tremors of earthquakes ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Indian Blood

    HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community

    Series series Indigenous Confluences
    Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "Lammy" Award in LGBTQ StudiesThe first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, Indian Blood provides an analysis of the emerging and often contested LGBTQ "two-spirit" identification as it relates to public health and mixed-race identity.Prior to contact with European ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus

    by David Quammen ...
    “A frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story.” —Walter IsaacsonIn 1976 a deadly virus emerged from the Congo forest. As swiftly as it came, it disappeared, leaving no trace. Over the four decades since, Ebola has emerged sporadically, each time to devastating effect. It can kill up to 90 percent of its victims. In between these outbreaks, it is ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • There is No Me Without You

    One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children

    Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a humanface on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one womanworking to save her country's children.After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian woman of modest means, opened her home to some of the thousands of children in Addis Ababa who have been left as orphans. There Is No Me Without You is ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Somebody to Love

    The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury

    A biography examining the final days of Freddie Mercury in the dawn of AIDS and the legacy he left behind.For the first time, the final years of one of the world’s most captivating rock showman are laid bare. Including interviews from Freddie Mercury’s closest friends in the last years of his life, along with personal photographs, Somebody to Love is an authoritative biography of the great man ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

    by David Quammen ...
    In this "frightening and fascinating masterpiece" (Walter Isaacson), David Quammen explores the true origins of HIV/AIDS.The real story of AIDS—how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people—is very different from what most of us think we know. Recent research has revealed dark surprises and yielded a radically new scenario of how ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • How AIDS Ends

    An Anthology from San Francisco AIDS Foundation

    When the history of HIV/AIDS is written, what will the final chapter look like? How AIDS Ends poses this question to 15 visionaries. We asked them to write history before it happens. The result is this first-of-its-kind anthology from San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Each author has been deeply touched by HIV/AIDS, and each is equally deeply committed to realizing the day when the disease is behind ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Positive

    Living with HIV/AIDS

    by David Menadue ...
    Positive is an account of a special life fearlessly told, as well as a chronicle of an era. Fifteen years ago, HIV and AIDS meant one thing - death. In 1984 David Menadue was one of the first people to be diagnosed with HIV in Australia. He was just 30 years old and thought it unlikely he would make it to 40. He turned 50 last year and has been living with AIDS for longer than almost anyone else ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Someone Was Here

    Profiles in the AIDS Epidemic

    Three powerful profiles of men and women whose lives were changed forever by the AIDS epidemic“Some of my reasons for wanting to write about AIDS were altruistic, others selfish. AIDS was decimating the community around me; there was a need to bear witness. AIDS had turned me and others like me into walking time bombs; there was a need to strike back, not just wait to die. What I didn't fully ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Serious Adverse Events

    An Uncensored History of AIDS

    by Celia Farber ...
    “Farber [is] a lucid and courageous witness to the power-play behind the first ‘scamdemic,’ . . . [Her] work is journalism at its best—solid, lucid, and humane, attacking wrongs that few dare touch, and thereby helping right them.”—Mark Crispin Miller, bestselling author and professor of media studies at NYUOn April 23, 1984, in a packed press conference room in Washington, DC, the secretary of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • I Die, but My Memory Lives On

    “A deeply moving account of Henning Mankell’s personal responses to AIDS and its victims, both parents and children left behind far too soon.” —Archbishop Desmond TutuThe internationally famous creator of the bestselling Kurt Wallander mysteries tells the true story of a heartrending tradition spawned by a major health crisis: the invaluable Memory Book Project, which gives those dying of AIDS an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa

    Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa

    by Stephen Lewis ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    "I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 CBC Massey Lectures. Lewis's determination to bear witness to the desperate plight of so many in Africa and elsewhere is balanced by his unique, personal, and often searing insider's perspective on our ongoing failure to help. Lewis recounts how, in 2000, the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Positively False: Exposing the Myths around HIV and AIDS - 16th Anniversary Edition

    by Joan Shenton ...
    In the 30 years since 'HIV' was announced as the "probable cause" of AIDS we are no closer to a vaccine or cure. Scientists and clinicians who question the widely held belief that 'HIV' is the cause of AIDS hold fast to their position that multiple factors can be attributed to the illnesses defined as AIDS which continue to afflict specific communities and risk groups, and that billions of dollars ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remaking a Life

    How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality

    In the face of life-threatening news, how does our view of life change—and what do we do it transform it? Remaking a Life uses the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a lens to understand how women generate radical improvements in their social well being in the face of social stigma and economic disadvantage. Drawing on interviews with nationally recognized AIDS activists as well as over one hundred Chicago ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Sexuality, Social Exclusion and Human Rights: Vulnerability in the Caribbean Context of HIV

    Sexuality, Social Exclusion and Human Rights examines some of the key drivers of HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean context by exploring risks, vulnerability, power, culture, sexuality and gender. It provides a unique perspective and analysis of the Caribbean response and how the inclusion of many different sectors in society and an interdisciplinary, rather than segregated multi-disciplinary approach, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Hidden Mercy

    AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear

    The 1980s and 1990s, the height of the AIDS crisis in the United States, was decades ago now, and many of the stories from this time remain hidden: A Catholic nun from a small Midwestern town packs up her life to move to New York City, where she throws herself into a community under assault from HIV and AIDS. A young priest sees himself in the many gay men dying from AIDS and grapples with how ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Mujeres y VIH en México

    Diálogos y tensiones entre perspectivas de atención a la salud

    ¿Qué condiciones participan en la posibilidad de que las mujeres puedan prevenir el VIH o conocer su diagnóstico oportunamente y recibir la atención médica que requieren? Este volumen busca explorar estas cuestiones en un esfuerzo colectivo por comprender y difundir aspectos fundamentales de la condición de las mujeres en la epidemia. A través de información producida por la experiencia en el ... Read more

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  • Plague Years

    A Doctor’s Journey through the AIDS Crisis

    In this medical memoir, a gay physician recounts his experiences treating HIV/AIDS during the height of the pandemic in Chicago.In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten signed more death certificates in Chicago—and, by inference, the state of Illinois—than anyone else. As a family physician, he was trained to care for patients from birth to death, but when he completed his residency in 1984, he had no idea ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Surviving Aids

    The Many Stories of Survival in Our Twenty-Five Year Battle Against Hiv/Aids

    Surviving AIDS involves making all the right movesand even then, your life is at risk. David W. Driver knows that well: two years after getting married to his wife, Kari-Ann, he discovered that not only did she have HIV, but she was suffering from full-blown AIDS. The disease came on quickly. First, she began to experience numbness in her right hand, fingers, and mouthand then the numbness spread ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Conocer y Vivir con VIH

    La prueba del VIH determina si usted está infectado o no con el virus de la inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH). Las pruebas son recomendadas si cree que puede haber sido expuesto al VIH; recibió una transfusión de sangre entre 1977 y 1985, o un compañero sexual recibió una transfusión y más tarde dio positivo del VIH, si está inseguro de los comportamientos de riesgo de su compañero sexual; o si es un ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Healing Benefits of CBD-Rich Hemp Oil

    The Ultimate Guide To CBD and Hemp Oil For Faster Healing, Better Health And Happiness

    Healing Benefits of CBD-Rich Hemp OilI congratulate you on finding this road roadmap (Book) - Healing Benefits of CBD-Rich Hemp Oil - The Ultimate Guide To CBD and Hemp Oil For Faster Healing, Better Health And Happiness.A lot has been said about the subject. Forget about what the doctors or anybody have said. In this book, you will practically learn a lot.CBD oil is expeditiously becoming a ... Read more

    $3.44 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Slow Death of the Aids/Cancer Paradigm

    And the Apocrypha of the Eukaryotic Cell

    AIDS and cancer are neither random nor infectious diseases. Both are characterized by a proton deficit and a reversal of the chimeric/energetic cooperative trend of the eukaryotic nucleus with the mitochondrial endosymbiont. This pattern is not random. It is consistent with the evolutionary heritage of the eukaryotic cell, which developed the foundational glycolytic pathways during the eon of the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Ashamed to Die

    Silence, Denial, and the AIDS Epidemic in the South

    By focusing on a small town in South Carolina, this study of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the South reveals the hard truths of an ongoing and complex issue. Skerritt contends that the United States has failed to adequately address the threat of HIV and AIDS in communities of color and that taboos about love, race, and sexuality-combined with Southern conservatism, white privilege, and black oppression ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Political Economy of Stigma

    HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities

    by Allyson Day ...
    Winner, 2022 Alison Piepmeier Prize from the National Women’s Studies AssociationIn The Political Economy of Stigma, Ally Day offers a compelling critique of neoliberal medical practices in the US by coupling an analysis of HIV memoir with a critical examination of narrative medicine practice. Using insights from feminist disability studies and crip theory, Day argues that stories of illness and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD