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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > AIDS: social aspects

Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence (Paperback): Donald E. Messer Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence (Paperback)
Donald E. Messer
R614 Discovery Miles 6 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis More than twenty years into the global AIDS pandemic, the efforts of Christian congregations and denominations have been less than minimal. This book is aimed to awaken Christian compassion in the coming years to this fathomless tragedy. The worst health crisis in the world in 700 years, global HIV/AIDS epidemic is overwhelming in scale: 40 million people are infected worldwide (75% of them in Africa); 7000 people die daily; each day 1600 persons are infected. Some 26 million people have already died. ''At this unprecedented kairos moment in human history, '' says Messer, ''God is calling the church to a new mission and ministry.'' Drawing on his own involvement in global AIDS education in Asia, Latin America, and Africa, Messer uses stories, basic factual information, and theological insights to motivate lay and clerical Christians to assume leadership and form partnerships with Christians around the world in this struggle. Just as individuals must change their behavior to prevent and eliminate AIDS, so must congregations and church leaders. Compassion, not condemnation, is desperately needed, says Messer. But financial resources for education and prevention programs are also urgently required from churches. Messer shows how churches can partner with ecumenical organizations, relief agencies, volunteer mission programs, healthcare programs, and other agencies to engage global AIDS directly and effectively.

In the Province of the Gods (Paperback): Kenny Fries In the Province of the Gods (Paperback)
Kenny Fries
R735 R517 Discovery Miles 5 170 Save R218 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Kenny Fries embarks on a journey of profound self-discovery as a disabled foreigner in Japan, a society historically hostile to difference. As he visits gardens, experiences Noh and butoh, and meets artists and scholars, he also discovers disabled gods, one-eyed samurai, blind chanting priests, and A-bomb survivors. When he is diagnosed as HIV positive, all his assumptions about Japan, the body, and mortality are shaken, and he must find a way to reenter life on new terms.

A Sourcebook of HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs (Paperback): Alexandria Valerio, Donald Bundy A Sourcebook of HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs (Paperback)
Alexandria Valerio, Donald Bundy
R1,208 Discovery Miles 12 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Volume 1. This Sourcebook aims to support efforts by countries to strengthen the role of the education sector in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. It was developed in response to numerous requests for a simple forum to help countries share their practical experiences of designing and implementing programs that are targeted at school-age children. The Sourcebook seeks to fulfill this role by providing concise summaries of programs, using a standard format that highlights the main elements of the programs and makes it easier to compare the programs with each other. A Sourcebook of HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs documents 13 education based HIV/AIDS prevention programs targeting children and youth from 7 sub-Saharan African countries. It is sponsored by UNAIDS, UNICEF, UNESCO, UNFPA, DFID, USAID, Ireland Aid and the World Bank. The Sourcebook represents the work of many contributors (acknowledged in the book), and was developed by the Partnership for Child Development with the World Bank, with principal support from Ireland Aid and the Norwegian Education Trust Fund.

Prevention of HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse (Hardcover): G.C. Satpathy Prevention of HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse (Hardcover)
G.C. Satpathy
R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
AIDS Inc (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Jon Rappoport AIDS Inc (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Jon Rappoport
R666 Discovery Miles 6 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Virus is NOT the cause Definition of AIDS is Worthless Treatment is Poison "Anyone interested in AIDS must read this book." Laurence E. Badgley, M.D Author of Healing AIDS Naturally Investigative reporter Jon Rappoport uncovers the shocking truth about AIDS: Thousands are dying needlessly as the medical world and media pull off the biggest scandal of our time - all for the love of power and money. AIDS INC: takes you on a sizzling behind-the-scenes tour of laboratories, newsrooms and even the White House to expose the real killers behind the disease. It's the most explosive, myth-shattering book you'll read this year. Book Size: 216x140

African American Women and HIV/AIDS - Critical Responses (Paperback, New): Dorie J. Gilbert, Ednita M. Wright African American Women and HIV/AIDS - Critical Responses (Paperback, New)
Dorie J. Gilbert, Ednita M. Wright
R1,397 Discovery Miles 13 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

AIDS is the second-leading cause of death among African American women between the ages of 18 and 44. African American women constitute 63% of all cases of AIDS among women in the United States. This volume brings together the collective wisdom of scholars, researchers, and social work professionals dealing with these concerns. Focusing attention on the primary population of women impacted by AIDS, this book presents culturally sensitive responses that meet the specific needs of African American women.

An historical and current overview of the alarming HIV infection rate among African Americans, in particular women, introduces the crisis. Subsequent chapters highlight HIV/AIDS prevention and intervention strategies that are successfully impacting the African American population. Guided by a feminist perspective and grounded in social construction theory, social work theory, and social work practice, this volume privileges the voice of African American women, the group that is the most disenfranchised--and least accurately represented--in AIDS-related research and writing. This essential guide sheds light on a calamity too often overlooked, making it especially valuable for scholars, students, researchers, and practitioners involved with HIV/AIDS issues in the African American community, and with women's and black studies.

The AIDS Coup (Paperback): Jack Barker The AIDS Coup (Paperback)
Jack Barker
R452 Discovery Miles 4 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women Take Care - Gender, Race, and the Culture of Aids (Hardcover): Katie Hogan Women Take Care - Gender, Race, and the Culture of Aids (Hardcover)
Katie Hogan
R3,712 Discovery Miles 37 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women Take Care - Gender, Race, and the Culture of AIDS (Paperback): Katie Hogan Women Take Care - Gender, Race, and the Culture of AIDS (Paperback)
Katie Hogan
R1,119 Discovery Miles 11 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Self-sacrificing mothers and forgiving wives, caretaking lesbians, and vigilant maternal surrogates these "good women" are all familiar figures in the visual and print culture relating to AIDS. In a probing critique of that culture, Katie Hogan demonstrates ways in which literary and popular works use the classic image of the nurturing female to render "queer" AIDS more acceptable, while consigning women to conventional roles and reinforcing the idea that everyone with this disease is somehow suspect.In times of crisis, the figure of the idealized woman who is modest and selfless has repeatedly surfaced in Western culture as a balm and a source of comfort and as a means of mediating controversial issues. Drawing on examples from journalism, medical discourse, fiction, drama, film, television, and documentaries, Hogan describes how texts on AIDS reproduce this historically entrenched paradigm of sacrifice and care, a paradigm that reinforces biases about race and sexuality. Hogan believes that the growing nostalgia for women's traditional roles has deflected attention away from women's own health needs. Throughout her book, she depicts caretaking as a fundamental human obligation, but one that currently falls primarily to those members of society with the least power. Only by rejecting the stereotype of the "good woman," she says, can Americans begin to view caretaking as the responsibility of the entire society."

Loss within Loss - Artists in the Age of AIDS (Paperback, New edition): Edmund White Loss within Loss - Artists in the Age of AIDS (Paperback, New edition)
Edmund White
R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging, sorrowful, and buoyant accounts of artist friends and lovers struck down by AIDS. These essayists include Maya Angelou, Alan Gurganus, Brad Gooch, John Berendt, Craig Lucas, Robert Rosenblum, and 18 others. Many of the subjects of the essays were already prominent - James Merrill, Paul Monette, David Wojnarowicz - but many others died young, before they were able to fulfil the promise of their lives and art. ""Loss Within Loss"" spans all of the arts and includes portraits of choreographers, painters, poets, actors, playwrights, sculptors, editors, composers, and architects. This text is published in association with the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, a national organization that preserves art works created by artists living with HIV or lost to AIDS. ""Loss Within Loss"" stands as a reminder of the devastating impact of the AIDS epidemic on the arts community and as a survey of that devastation.

Killing Us Quietly - Native Americans and HIV/AIDS (Paperback): Irene S Vernon Killing Us Quietly - Native Americans and HIV/AIDS (Paperback)
Irene S Vernon
R394 R368 Discovery Miles 3 680 Save R26 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Over the past five centuries, waves of diseases have ravaged and sometimes annihilated Native American communities. The latest of these silent killers is HIV/AIDS. The first book to detail the devastating impact of the disease on Native Americans, Killing Us Quietly fully and minutely examines the epidemic and its social and cultural consequences among three groups in three geographical areas. Through a series of personal narratives, the book also vividly conveys the terrible individual and emotional toll the disease is taking on Native lives. Exploring Native urban, reservation, and rural perspectives, as well as the viewpoints of Native youth, women, gay or bisexual men, this study combines statistics, Native demography and histories, and profiles of Native organizations to provide a broad understanding of HIV/AIDS among Native Americans. The book confronts the unique economic and political circumstances and cultural practices that can encourage the spread of the disease in Native settings. And perhaps most important, it discusses prevention strategies and educational resources. A much-needed overview of a national calamity, "Killing Us Quietly" is an essential resource for Natives and non-Natives alike.

Confronting AIDS - Public Priorities in a Global Epidemic (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): World Bank Policy Research... Confronting AIDS - Public Priorities in a Global Epidemic (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
World Bank Policy Research Department
R987 Discovery Miles 9 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This revised and updated edition of the pathbreaking report on the global AIDS epidemic outlines the strategic role that government must play in slowing the spread of HIV and mitigating the impact of AIDS. Drawing on the knowledge accumulated in the 17 years since the virus that causes AIDS was first identified, the report highlights policies that are most likely to be effective in managing the epidemic. These include early actions to minimize the spread of the virus, aiming preventive interventions at high risk groups, and evaluating measures that would assist households affected by AIDS according to the same standards applied to other health issues. This revised edition will a valuable resource for public health, policymakers, researchers, and anyone with an interest in this devastating global health crisis.

Neighborhood Divided - Community Resistance to an AIDS Care Facility (Hardcover): Jane Balin Neighborhood Divided - Community Resistance to an AIDS Care Facility (Hardcover)
Jane Balin
R3,720 Discovery Miles 37 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When a nursing facility for AIDS patients is planned for a city neighborhood, residents might be expected to respond, "Not in my backyard." But, as Jane Balin recounts in A Neighborhood Divided, when that community is known for its racial and ethnic diversity and liberal attitudes, public reaction becomes less predictable and in many ways more important to comprehend.An ethnographer who spent two years talking with inhabitants of a progressive neighborhood facing this prospect, Jane Balin demonstrates that the controversy divided residents in surprising ways. She discovered that those most strongly opposed to the facility lived furthest away, that families with young children were evenly represented in the two camps, and that African Americans followed a Jewish community leader in opposing the home while dismissing their own minister's support of it. By viewing each side sympathetically and allowing participants to express their true feelings about AIDS, the author invites readers to recognize their own anxieties over this sensitive issue. Balin's insightful work stresses the importance of uncovering the ideologies and fears of middle-class Americans in order to understand the range of responses that AIDS has provoked in our society. Its ethnographic approach expands the parameters of NIMBY research, offering a clearer picture of the multi-faceted anxieties that drive responses to AIDS at both the local and national levels.

A Neighborhood Divided - Community Resistance to an AIDS Care Facility (Paperback): Jane Balin A Neighborhood Divided - Community Resistance to an AIDS Care Facility (Paperback)
Jane Balin
R1,145 Discovery Miles 11 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When a nursing facility for AIDS patients is planned for a city neighborhood, residents might be expected to respond, "Not in my backyard." But, as Jane Balin recounts in A Neighborhood Divided, when that community is known for its racial and ethnic diversity and liberal attitudes, public reaction becomes less predictable and in many ways more important to comprehend.An ethnographer who spent two years talking with inhabitants of a progressive neighborhood facing this prospect, Jane Balin demonstrates that the controversy divided residents in surprising ways. She discovered that those most strongly opposed to the facility lived furthest away, that families with young children were evenly represented in the two camps, and that African Americans followed a Jewish community leader in opposing the home while dismissing their own minister's support of it. By viewing each side sympathetically and allowing participants to express their true feelings about AIDS, the author invites readers to recognize their own anxieties over this sensitive issue. Balin's insightful work stresses the importance of uncovering the ideologies and fears of middle-class Americans in order to understand the range of responses that AIDS has provoked in our society. Its ethnographic approach expands the parameters of NIMBY research, offering a clearer picture of the multi-faceted anxieties that drive responses to AIDS at both the local and national levels.

Social Workers Speak out on the HIV/AIDS Crisis - Voices from and to African-American Communities (Paperback, New): Larry Gant,... Social Workers Speak out on the HIV/AIDS Crisis - Voices from and to African-American Communities (Paperback, New)
Larry Gant, Vincent Lynch, Patricia Stewart
R1,093 Discovery Miles 10 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Written by a team of nationally recognized African American social work professionals with extensive and distinguished backgrounds of HIV/AIDS service, the book examines the crisis facing African American communities. The editors strive to convey to academics, researchers, and students the magnitude of the crisis and that individuals and organizations serving African Americans need to be able to respond to the service delivery needs this crisis brings.

The crisis is evident in the fact that by year 2000 fully 50% of all AIDS cases will be among African Americans--who only constitute 12% of the nation's population. This book serves as a wake-up call and is designed to stimulate discussion and planning for new models of service to all African Americans and HIV prevention, education, and treatment.

The Boundaries of Blackness - AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (Paperback, New): Cathy J. Cohen The Boundaries of Blackness - AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (Paperback, New)
Cathy J. Cohen
R1,118 Discovery Miles 11 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Last year, more African Americans were reported with AIDS than any other racial or ethnic group. And while African Americans make up only 13 percent of the U.S. population, they account for more than 55 percent of all newly diagnosed HIV infections. These alarming developments have caused reactions ranging from profound grief to extreme anger in African-American communities, yet the organized political reaction has remained remarkably restrained.
"The Boundaries of Blackness" is the first full-scale exploration of the social, political, and cultural impact of AIDS on the African-American community. Informed by interviews with activists, ministers, public officials, and people with AIDS, Cathy Cohen unflinchingly brings to light how the epidemic fractured, rather than united, the black community. She traces how the disease separated blacks along different fault lines and analyzes the ensuing struggles and debates.
More broadly, Cohen analyzes how other cross-cutting issues--of class, gender, and sexuality--challenge accepted ideas of who belongs in the community. Such issues, she predicts, will increasingly occupy the political agendas of black organizations and institutions and can lead to either greater inclusiveness or further divisiveness.
"The Boundaries of Blackness," by examining the response of a changing community to an issue laced with stigma, has much to teach us about oppression, resistance, and marginalization. It also offers valuable insight into how the politics of the African-American community--and other marginal groups--will evolve in the twenty-first century.

AIDS - The Ultimate Challenge (Paperback, 1st Collier Books trade ed): Elisabeth Kubler-Ross AIDS - The Ultimate Challenge (Paperback, 1st Collier Books trade ed)
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
R568 Discovery Miles 5 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

AIDS

"None of us is so unique as to be exempt from the human condition."

As the numbers of reported AIDS cases continue to climb, and the disease continues to take more and more lives, those who have to deal with the complexities of this problem continue to ask: "How do we care for these terminally ill?"

Using letters from patients, questions and answers between patient and doctor, and other compassionate tools, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, the world's foremost expert on death and dying, shows us how to comfort the seriously ill and help AIDS patients through the critical "stages of dying" She addresses the stigma surrounding AIDS as a "gay disease" and makes a special plea for prisoners with AIDS, for women and children with AIDS, and for babies with AIDS. This remarkable book is warm and informative on one of the most important subjects of our time.

AIDS and the Apocalyptic Metaphor in North America - The New Religions Respond to a Plague (Paperback, 2nd): Susan Jean Palmer AIDS and the Apocalyptic Metaphor in North America - The New Religions Respond to a Plague (Paperback, 2nd)
Susan Jean Palmer
R1,076 Discovery Miles 10 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Queer and Loathing: Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone (Paperback): David B Feinberg Queer and Loathing: Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone (Paperback)
David B Feinberg; Introduction by Tony Kushner; Preface by Tony Kushner
R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With the startling blend of satiric wit, pathos, and heroism found in his acclaimed and iconoclastic novels, Feinberg--who died in 1994 at the age of 37--charts a harrowing journey down that "HIV highway to hell". "This is AIDS literature for a new generation--funny, impertinent, sexy, and enlightening".--The Advocate.

Sarah's Song - A True Story of Love and Courage (Paperback): Janice A Burns Sarah's Song - A True Story of Love and Courage (Paperback)
Janice A Burns
R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Janice and Bill were the perfect couple. They met during college, got married and began promising careers. But in 1987 their storybook life was shattered forever when they were diagnosed with HIV. Janice explains how they coped.

Fatal Advice - How Safe-Sex Education Went Wrong (Paperback, New): Cindy Patton Fatal Advice - How Safe-Sex Education Went Wrong (Paperback, New)
Cindy Patton
R944 Discovery Miles 9 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 leading writer on the cultural politics of AIDS, Cindy Patton guides us through the thicket of mass-media productions, policy and public health enterprises, and activist projects as they sprang up to meet the challenge of the epidemic, shaping the nation's notion of what safe-sex is and who ought to know what about it. There is the official story, and then there is another, involving local groups and AIDS activists. Going back to early government and activist attempts to spread information, Patton traces a slow separation between official advice and that provided by those on the front lines in the battle against AIDS. She shows how American anxieties about teen sex played into the nation's inadequate education and protection of its young people, and chronicles the media's attempts to encourage compassion without broaching the touchy subject of sex or disrupting the notion that AIDS was a disease of social and sexual outcasts. Her overview of the relationship between shifting medical perceptions and safe-sex advice reveals why radical safe-sex educators eventually turned to sexually explicit, including pornographic, representations to spread their message-and why even these extreme tactics could not overcome the misguided national teaching on AIDS. Patton closes with a stirring manifesto, an urgent call to action for all those who do not want to see the hard lessons of AIDS education and activism wasted, or, with these lessons, the loss of so many more lives.

AIDS Prevention and Services - Community Based Research (Paperback): Johannes P.Van Vugt AIDS Prevention and Services - Community Based Research (Paperback)
Johannes P.Van Vugt
R1,119 Discovery Miles 11 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Community based organizations assist participants in developing social skills and familiar language for negotiating and practicing safer, non-risky behaviors. AIDS education and awareness is best achieved in local community groups through the use of interactive group sharing and non-professional language. Supportive and informed mutual aid can be extended through community based organizations and can alleviate the psychological effects of isolation, homophobia, abandonment, and political disinterest created by society at large. AIDS therapy and prevention is best accomplished in settings that encourage one-to-one communication and compassion. The seventeen authors of this masterful compilation of AIDS research and policy make a strong case for community organizations as valiant warriors in one of this century's most threatening epidemics against humanity.

AIDS Care at Home (Paperback): Judith Greif AIDS Care at Home (Paperback)
Judith Greif
R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 benefit from this supportive, comprehensive resource.

  • Detailed information on protecting against infection
  • Concise instructions for both ambulatory and bedridden patients
  • How to administer intravenous feedings and medication
  • Appendices covering lab tests, alternative therapies, and the latest experimental drugs
  • The differences between caring for men and women with AIDS
  • Tips for caregivers on maintaining their own health and well-being
This information-packed reference is invaluable for caregivers and people with AIDS who must care for themselves.
AIDS and the Church, Revised and Enlarged - The Second Decade (Paperback, 2nd revised and enlarged ed): Earl E. Shelp, Ronald H... AIDS and the Church, Revised and Enlarged - The Second Decade (Paperback, 2nd revised and enlarged ed)
Earl E. Shelp, Ronald H Sunderland
R925 R841 Discovery Miles 8 410 Save R84 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The authors provide important new information about the changing evolution of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the persons it is affecting, and its global impact. . . . Most important, it presents a compassionate and prophetic vision of what the church's response ought to be. . . ".--James B. Nelson, Professor of Christian Ethics, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, New Brighton, Minnesota.

Punishing Disease - HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness (Hardcover): Trevor Hoppe Punishing Disease - HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness (Hardcover)
Trevor Hoppe
R2,782 Discovery Miles 27 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIV-mostly stigmatized minorities-began before doctors had even settled on a name for the disease. Punitive attitudes toward AIDS prompted lawmakers around the country to introduce legislation aimed at criminalizing the behaviors of people living with HIV. Punishing Disease explains how this happened-and its consequences. With the door to criminalizing sickness now open, what other ailments will follow? As lawmakers move to tack on additional diseases such as hepatitis and meningitis to existing law, the question is more than academic.

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