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Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Infectious & contagious diseases > HIV / AIDS

Encyclopaedia of AIDS, v.1 (Hardcover): G.C. Satpathy Encyclopaedia of AIDS, v.1 (Hardcover)
G.C. Satpathy
R265 Discovery Miles 2 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Encyclopaedia of AIDS (Hardcover): G.C. Satpathy Encyclopaedia of AIDS (Hardcover)
G.C. Satpathy
R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Undoubtly, expert medical advice of the most competent persond would minimise the havoc to be caused among millions of people. With an extensive research material, documents and study reports from all over the world, a compilation of facts and figures in the form of a comprehensive encyclopaedia of seven volumes was the dire need of the time.

Lectionary Worship AIDS - Series VI, Cycle C [With CDROM] [With CDROM] [With CDROM] (Paperback): H.Burnham Kirkland Lectionary Worship AIDS - Series VI, Cycle C [With CDROM] [With CDROM] [With CDROM] (Paperback)
H.Burnham Kirkland
R656 Discovery Miles 6 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Preparing to lead a congregation in worship each Sunday is a formidable and pressure-filled responsibility. That's why busy worship planners will love this all-new edition of a favorite CSS reference. It's a handy, easy-to-use resource with several prayers and a worship theme relating to the assigned scriptural passages for every Sunday and major observance in Cycle C of the Revised Common Lectionary. For each First Lesson, Second Lesson, and Gospel text there's a call to worship, an invocation/collect, a prayer of confession, an offertory prayer, and suggested hymns. This complete collection offers a wide selection of practical aids for creating sincerely reverent, meaningful worship.

Aids to the Study of Dante (1903) (Paperback): Charles Allen et al Dinsmore Aids to the Study of Dante (1903) (Paperback)
Charles Allen et al Dinsmore
R1,119 Discovery Miles 11 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A variety of historical and critical essays give perspective to the reader of Dante. Contents: The time of Dante; Sources of our knowledge of Dante; Dante's personal appearance; The Vita Nuova; Minor works; The Divina Commedia; Interpretations; Bibliography.

Preaching with AIDS - The Carolyn Jenkins Story (Paperback): Carolyn Jenkins Preaching with AIDS - The Carolyn Jenkins Story (Paperback)
Carolyn Jenkins
R438 Discovery Miles 4 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I am Cured of AIDS - AIDS (Paperback): Wardell Thomas Israel I am Cured of AIDS - AIDS (Paperback)
Wardell Thomas Israel
R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Shots in the Dark - The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine (Paperback): Jon Cohen Shots in the Dark - The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine (Paperback)
Jon Cohen
R725 R679 Discovery Miles 6 790 Save R46 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"[A]n important book not only for the now but for the future of this epidemic and those to come."—Dr. Robert Gallo

When scientists proved in 1984 that HIV causes AIDS, a vaccine race spun into action. But the sprint to develop an AIDS vaccine now more closely resembles a crawl. Jon Cohen elucidates the forces that have hindered the search: unforeseen scientific obstacles, clashing personalities, the uncertain marketplace, haphazard political organization, and serious ethical dilemmas. Beyond a powerful critique, Cohen also offers specific recommendations for accelerating the effort. 6 pages of b/w photographs.

"Meticulously researched, cogently argued, and highly readable...the most important AIDS book since...And the Band Played On."—Seth Berkley, The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

"[Cohen's] intimate knowledge of the thinking and personalities of the major players,... uniquely captures the real drama of science."—Barry R. Bloom, Harvard School of Public Health

"A wake-up call, a must-read for policy makers, scientific leaders, and everyone who is working to stop AIDS."—Bill Gates Sr., Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation


AIDS (Paperback): Holly Cefrey AIDS (Paperback)
Holly Cefrey
R962 Discovery Miles 9 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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.

The Least of These My Brethren - A Doctor's Story of Hope and Miracles in an Inner-City AIDS Ward (Paperback, 1st Harvest... The Least of These My Brethren - A Doctor's Story of Hope and Miracles in an Inner-City AIDS Ward (Paperback, 1st Harvest ed)
Daniel J Baxter M D
R551 Discovery Miles 5 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The face of AIDS at the end of the twentieth century is just as likely to belong to the homeless, the drug users, the poor and forgotten members of society as it is to gay men. Invisible to much of society and without the resources (political, emotional, and financial) to get help, these are the patients who end their days at the Spellman Center at St. Clare's Hospital in New York's Hell's Kitchen. But even in this carkest circumstance, in Spellman's chaotic and filthy hallways, redemption happens, life is reborn.

Daniel Baxter, who cared for the marginalized patients in conditions symbolic of their station in life, provides readers with an unprecedented profile of AIDS. Offering gritty details from his three-and-a-half years at Spellman, Baxter also passes along his memories of the hope that rises from AIDS's ashes -- the loving gesture where there was only hate, the lucidity where there was only confusion, the emotional connection where there was only alienation. Baxter tells the stories of patients living each day with grace in a place where people find a reason to care.

The Caribbean AIDS Epidemic (Paperback): The Caribbean AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
R952 R814 Discovery Miles 8 140 Save R138 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is an examination of the Caribbean AIDS epidemic.

Global Responses to AIDS - Science in Emergency (Hardcover): Cristiana Bastos Global Responses to AIDS - Science in Emergency (Hardcover)
Cristiana Bastos
R1,143 Discovery Miles 11 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

..". a coherent and fascinating social analysis of AIDS-related knowledge, examining the social facts of knowledge production and developments interior to communities of science." Medical Humanities Review

..". a multilayered, composite approach that involves multisited ethnographic research in different spheres of the collective responses to AIDS... " Choice

The response to AIDS from various groups in developing knowledge of and about this health crisis is the focus of this revealing work. Rio de Janeiro serves as an observation point for the study of the intersecting worlds of activism, clinical practice, and biomedical research."

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.

The AmFAR AIDS Handbook - The Complete Guide to Understanding HIV and AIDS (Paperback): Darrell E. Ward The AmFAR AIDS Handbook - The Complete Guide to Understanding HIV and AIDS (Paperback)
Darrell E. Ward; Introduction by Mathilde Krim
R800 R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Save R52 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the leading foundation for AIDS research, a comprehensive guide to help readers understand the complexities of HIV/AIDS and provide the latest information on combination therapy.

The AmFAR AIDS Handbook picks up where other books on AIDS leave off. It is the book you will turn to for a greater understanding of this disease, its causes and effects, and what new treatment options are being developed. How is HIV transmitted? When should antiviral treatment begin? Should treatment ever be stopped? How do protease inhibitors work? How does the disease differ in men, women, and children? This guide incorporates the latest research findings—including those on combination drug therapy—and answers all your questions in language comprehensible to nonscientists.

AmFAR (American Foundation for AIDS Research) is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to the support of laboratory and clinical research on AIDS, AIDS prevention, and advocacy for sound AIDS-related public policy. It has given out over $140 million to more than 1700 research teams. Elizabeth Taylor is the founding national chairman and Dr. Mathilde Krim is the founding co-chair and chairman of the board.

Progress in Preventing AIDS? Dogma, Dissent and Innovation - Global Perspectives (Paperback, Illustrated Ed): David Ross... Progress in Preventing AIDS? Dogma, Dissent and Innovation - Global Perspectives (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
David Ross Buchanan, George Peter Cernada
R3,620 Discovery Miles 36 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Originally published in the "International Quarterly of Community Health Education", this work presents twenty-one chapters about the state of HIV/AIDS prevention programs in a global context.

HIV Drug Book Revised (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed): Project Inform HIV Drug Book Revised (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed)
Project Inform
R1,105 Discovery Miles 11 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Project Inform, the nation's leading community-based AIDS treatment information and advocacy organization, presents the first comprehensive, user-friendly guide to all the drugs most used by people with HIV/AIDS. This completely updated edition includes profiles of the newest and most recently approved drugs and laboratory tests, including protease inhibitors and viral load tests -- and in-depth discussions on how best to use these advances to create effective, long-term treatment strategies. Acclaimed for its accurate but nontechnical language, the handbook is easily accessible by way of an extensive master index. Features include:

  • Drugs listed by brand or trade name, generic, popular, scientific and experiemental code name, for quick identification under any known name -- along with a full-color photo insert showing every drug listed
  • Drugs grouped together by types of treatment: antiviral, anticancer, antifungal, experimental, immune-based therapy, psychoactive and more
  • Treatment strategies for delaying or overcoming drug resistance, and achieving longterm success
  • Side effects and drug interactions, possible reactions, and warnings
  • An extensive glossary of HIV/AIDS related terms, clearly and concisely defined
  • Unique indications for HIV treatment for children, women (with special cautions during pregnancy) and for the elderly
  • Essential information on choosing a doctor, clinical trials, avoiding medical scams, nutritional strategies, assistance programs, buyers' clubs, hotline numbers including Project Inform's HIV/AIDS National Treatment Hotline (800-822-7422 or 415-558-9051), and much more.

The HIV Drug Book is written expressly for people with HIV/AIDS and their caregivers, friends and family members, and will be invaluable to physicians who must struggle with the overwhelming demands of this rapidly changing field.

Borrowed Time - An AIDS Memoir (Paperback, 1st Harvest ed): Paul Monette Borrowed Time - An AIDS Memoir (Paperback, 1st Harvest ed)
Paul Monette 1
R479 Discovery Miles 4 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first personal documentary about AIDS to be published, "Borrowed Time" remains as vividly detailed as the best novel and as lucidly observed as the fiercest journalism. It is a cry from the heart against AIDS as it was in the early stages of the plague and against the intolerance that surrounded it. In equal parts, it is a supremely moving love story and a chronicle of the deep commitment and devotion that Paul Monette felt for Roger Horwitz from the night of their first meeting in Boston in the mid-1970s to Roger's diagnosis a decade later and through the last two years of his life, when fighting the disease together became a full-time occupation. This is not a book about death but a book about living while dying and the full range of emotions provoked by that transition -- sorrow, fear, anger, among them. It is a document essential to the history of the gay community; vital for anyone reading about AIDS; and one of the most powerful demonstrations of love and partnership to be found in print.

Choosing Unsafe Sex - AIDS-risk Denial Among Disadvantaged Women (Paperback, New): E. J. Sobo Choosing Unsafe Sex - AIDS-risk Denial Among Disadvantaged Women (Paperback, New)
E. J. Sobo
R765 Discovery Miles 7 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Choosing Unsafe Sex focuses on the ways in which condom refusal and beliefs regarding HIV testing reflect women's hopes for their relationships and their desires to preserve status and self-esteem. Many of the inner-city women who participated in Dr. Sobo's research were seriously involved with one man, and they had heavy emotional and social investments in believing or maintaining that their partners were faithful to them. Uninvolved women had similarly heavy investments in their abilities to identify or choose potential partners who were HIV-negative. Women did not see themselves as being at risk for HIV infection, and so they saw no need for condoms. But they did recommend that other women, whom they saw as quite likely to be involved with sexually unfaithful men, use them.

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.

Overcoming Hypertension - Preventive Medicine Program (Paperback): Kenneth H. Cooper Overcoming Hypertension - Preventive Medicine Program (Paperback)
Kenneth H. Cooper
R606 Discovery Miles 6 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Like a time bomb ticking away, hypertension builds quietly, gradually, placing unbearable strain on the body until it explodes--in heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, arterial disease, even death. But the disease does not have to progress that way. Here, in the third volume of the highly acclaimed "Preventive Medicine Program," Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, one of the nations foremost experts in the field of preventive medicine, presents a medically sound, reassuringly simple program that help you lower you blood pressure--and keep it down, often without drugs. "Overcoming Hypertension" gives you:


--The latest facts on how cholesterol, cigarette smoking, obesity, and stress affect coronary risk levels.


--Your high blood pressure risk profile, with newly devised charts for men and women.


--A complete fitness program that lets you choose the sport that works for you. Plus a unique illustrated guide to aqua-aerobics.


--Tips on talking to your doctor that will help you become an active participant in your own recovery.


--A guide to anti-hypertensive drugs--the most up-to-date list of medications, their recommended daily doses, and ways to minimize side effects.


--Three distinct dietary programs, complete with menus, recipes, nutritional charts, healthy cooking tips, and much more.


--Take charge of your health and well-being with "Overcoming Hypertension."

"From the Paperback edition."

In the Shadow of the Epidemic - Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS (Paperback, New): Walt Odets In the Shadow of the Epidemic - Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS (Paperback, New)
Walt Odets
R1,104 Discovery Miles 11 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For gay men who are HIV-negative in a community devastated by AIDS, survival may be a matter of grief, guilt, anxiety, and isolation. In the Shadow of the Epidemic is a passionate and intimate look at the emotional and psychological impact of AIDS on the lives of the survivors of the epidemic, those who must face on a regular basis the death of friends and, in some cases, the decimation of their communities. Drawing upon his own experience as a clinical psychologist and a decade-long involvement with AIDS/HIV issues, Walt Odets explores the largely unrecognized matters of denial, depression, and identity that mark the experience of uninfected gay men.
Odets calls attention to the dire need to address issues that are affecting HIV-negative individuals--from concerns about sexuality and relations with those who are HIV-positive to universal questions about the nature and meaning of survival in the midst of disease. He argues that such action, while explicitly not directing attention away from the needs of those with AIDS, is essential to the human and biological well-being of gay communities. In the immensely powerful firsthand words of gay men living in a semiprivate holocaust, the need for a broader, compassionate approach to all of the AIDS epidemic's victims becomes clear. In the Shadow of the Epidemic is a pathbreaking first step toward meeting that need.

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