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  • AIDS Care at Home

    A Guide for Caregivers, Loved Ones, and People with AIDS

    by Judith Greif ...
    An indispensable guide to every aspect of at-home care This thoroughly practical guide details the daily routines and unique concerns that are essential to quality at-home care of people with AIDS. From setting up a safe and comfortable environment to making medical and legal choices and solving emotional problems, each vital issue is covered in depth. Every caregiver and person with AIDS will ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fatal Advice

    How Safe-Sex Education Went Wrong

    by Cindy Patton ...
    Series series Series Q
    The American public responded to the first cases of AIDS with fear and panic. Both policymakers and activists were concerned not only with stopping the spread of the disease, but also with guiding the public’s response toward those already infected. Fatal Advice is an examination of how the nation attempted, with mixed results, to negotiate the fears and concerns brought on by the epidemic. A ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Hospital Time

    Hospital Time is a memoir about friendship, family, and caregiving in the age of AIDS. Amy Hoffman, a writer, lesbian activist, and former editor of Gay Community News, chronicles with fury and unflinching honesty her experience serving as primary caretaker for her friend and colleague, Mike Riegle, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1992. Hoffman neither idealizes nor deifies Riegle, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • HIV/AIDS and the Drug Culture

    Shattered Lives

    In this startling new collection of case studies entitled HIV/AIDS and the Drug Culture: Shattered Lives, you‘ll take an eye-opening and informative look at the lifestyle and culture of the HIV/AIDS intravenous drug users (IVDUs). You‘ll see how health care providers and caregivers can update their methods and mindsets in order to meet the needs of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD $44.99 USD

  • AIDS and Development in Africa

    A Social Science Perspective

    AIDS and Development in Africa: A Social Science Perspective is the first book-length treatment of both the impact of AIDS in Africa and an assessment of intervention strategies in varying cultural situations. Developed from revised selected papers from the nineteenth Southern African Universities Social Science Conference, AIDS and Development in Africa will be of interest to counselors, medical ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • How to Have Theory in an Epidemic

    Cultural Chronicles of AIDS

    Paula A. Treichler has become a singularly important voice among the significant theorists on the AIDS crisis. Dissecting the cultural politics surrounding representations of HIV and AIDS, her work has altered the field of cultural studies by establishing medicine as a legitimate focus for cultural analysis. How to Have Theory in an Epidemic is a comprehensive collection of Treichler’s related ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Who's Gonna Notice Anyway

    Er Nurse Manager Deals with Aids

    by Rita M. Grady ...
    A career woman, proud and successful, a Nursing supervisor, wants things her way. She gets life on her terms until she deals with AIDS in her professional and personal life. Emergency Department supervisor, Mary , fights a budget and changing health care finances. She deals with an employees alcoholic wife; a nurse with a needle stick exposure to AIDS and a challenging black orderly. "Only in the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Endangered Self

    Identity and Social Risk

    To date, the majority of HIV/AIDS research has concentrated on education and prevention for those with a seronegative status, while studies of HIV positive individuals have been concerned with their potential to infect others. The Endangered Self however, focuses on how the discovery of an HIV positive status affects the individual's sense of identity, on the experience of living with HIV and its ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Woman with a Worm in Her Head

    And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease

    A normal, healthy woman becomes host to a pork tapeworm that is burrowing into her brain and disabling her motor abilities.A handsome man contracts Chicken Pox and ends up looking like the victim of a third degree burn.A vigorous young athlete is bitten by an insect and becomes a target for flesh-eating strep.Even the most innocuous everyday activities such as eating a salad for lunch, getting ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Children of Africa Confront AIDS

    From Vulnerability to Possibility

    Edited by Arvind Singhal, Steve Howard ...
    Series Book 80 - Research in International Studies, Africa Series
    AIDS is now the leading cause of death in Africa, where twenty-eight million people are HIV-positive, and where some twelve million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. In Zimbabwe, 45 percent of children under the age of five are HIV-positive, and the epidemic has shortened life expectancy by twenty-two years. A fifteen-year-old in Botswana or South Africa has a one-in-two chance of ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Secret Epidemic

    The Story of AIDS and Black America

    Half the people in the United States who are diagnosed with HIV are now African American. Through the eyes of those on the front lines of the crisis, journalist Jacob Levenson tells a story of race and public health that spans fifty years and reveals how AIDS has become one of the leading killers of young black men and women. Medical researcher Mindy Fullilove investigates the epidemic’s links to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Sexual Cultures in East Asia

    The Social Construction of Sexuality and Sexual Risk in a Time of AIDS

    Edited by Evelyne Micollier ...
    Using case-studies from East and Southeast Asia, this book examines sexuality and AIDS-related sexual risk in the context of Asian cultures. It offers a complementary perspective, documented with sociological and anthropological data, to historical studies and looks at commercial sex work, kinship systems, matrimonial strategies, gender, power relations, and the relevance of cultural constructs ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Practice Issues in HIV/AIDS Services

    Empowerment-Based Models and Program Applications

    Improve quality of life for patients with HIV/AIDS!Practice Issues in HIV/AIDS Services: Empowerment-Based Models and Program Applications provides a sound framework of intervention practices for case managers and care coordinators to help HIV/AIDS patients live longer and healthier lives. This book focuses on client-based care that addre ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The African AIDS Epidemic

    A History

    by John Iliffe ...
    This history of the African AIDS epidemic is a much-needed, accessibly written historical account of the most serious epidemiological catastrophe of modern times. The African AIDS Epidemic: A History answers President Thabo Mbeki’s provocative question as to why Africa has suffered this terrible epidemic.While Mbeki attributed the causes to poverty and exploitation, others have looked to ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Dying to be Men

    Youth, Masculinity and Social Exclusion

    by Gary Barker ...
    Series series Sexuality, Culture and Health
    One of the first comparative reflections of its kind, this book examines the challenges that young men face when trying to grow up in societies where violence is the norm. Barker, who has worked directly with low-income youth and witnessed first hand the violence he describes, provides a compelling account of the young men's struggles. He discusses the problems these men face in other areas of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • AIDS: Women, Drugs and Social Care

    Series series Social Aspects of AIDS
    Examines the circumstances, experiences and needs of HIV-positive people in Britain and Ireland, and particularly focuses on female drug-users and ex drug-users. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The AIDS Pandemic

    Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations

    Series series Studies in Social Medicine
    In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally recognized scholar of AIDS law and policy, confronts the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world. He shows how HIV/AIDS affects the entire population--infected and uninfected--by influencing our social norms, our economy, and our country's role as a world leader.Now in the third ... Read more

    $28.99 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

  • The African Aids Epidemic

    A History

    by John Iliffe ...
    This is an accessible book on the most terrible catastrophe of modern times.This book is aimed initially at students who want to study the history of the Aids epidemic but who currently have no starting point from which to enter the vast and often technical literature. Other readers will also find it a helpful introduction to a subject of immense contemporary importance.This book explains the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • A First Step - Understanding Guillain-Barre Syndrome

    Part one of A First Step - Understanding Guillain-Barr Syndrome is a true, blow-by-blow account of the Author's encounter, as a healthy Canadian businessman, with a rare and devastating disease, Guillain-Barr Syndrome (G.B.S. for short). It describes his seven-month long struggle for life in 'Intensive Care' after receiving a grim prognosis, and his subsequent dogged determination to overcome the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Mass Communication in Prevention and Control of AIDS: Strategies for Adolescents

    The Book Summary of Mass Communication In prevention and Control of AIDS: Mass Media Strategies in India. This Book examines the role of mass communication in prevention and control of AIDS. Studying the socio-economic and psychological aspects of the disease, it analysis the AIDS related news contents and messages in Indian Newspapers and audio-visual media. ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • My Pet Virus

    The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure

    by Shawn Decker ...
    Iwas destined for a life of medical drama from day one," begins this comic memoir with a mission. "I was born in the month of July, and my horoscope sign is a disease (Cancer). The symbol for Cancer? A crab (the sexually transmitted critter). Not only that, my parents named me Shawn Timothy Decker, which makes my initials S.T.D.Shawn Decker isn't quite the All-American boy. Sure, he gets caught ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Culture, Society and Sexuality

    A Reader

    Series series Sexuality, Culture and Health
    This new and revised edition of Culture, Society and Sexuality brings together and makes accessible a broad and international selection of readings to provide insights into the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of sexuality and relationships, and emerging discourses around sexual and reproductive rights.Clearly structured and presented, the book makes an extremely useful ... Read more

    $49.99 USD