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In the decade since AIDS was first recognised the enormous and
worldwide social and medical implications of this disease have been
increasingly recognised. The exponential increase in the number of
people infected with HIV has been paralleled by the written
literature on the subject. When this book was initially conceived
the question was why another book? It seemed to me at that time and
since, that as HIV presented ever more complex problems, they were
best solved when considered within a wider context, using basic
principles of individual medical specialties and applying them. For
this reason, all the chapter authors were experienced in a
particular field and applied that knowledge to HIV. All the authors
were working at the Middlesex Hospital in London when the AIDS
services there were expanding to fill a need, from 2 beds in 1986
to two wards today. The authors were frontline staff looking after
all aspects of HIV infection within a wider general medical
context. Many are now consultants or senior lecturers. It is the
aim of the book to provide an insight into HIV and AIDS as a
overview for someone starting to work in this field or who sees
such patients occasionally and requires some basic guidelines. For
this reason the chapters are based predominantly on organ systems
and are divided into sections covering the presenta tion, methods
of investigation and treatment or action required of relevant
conditions."
The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate covers the
period 1901-1929, the period in which the Parliament operated from
Melbourne. This first volume provides short articles on Australia's
Senators during the first thirty years of the Federal Parliament.
These entries place particular emphasis on the events of a
Senator's parliamentary experience, contributions to debates,
committee work, parliamentary positions as well as ministerial
appointments. It provides also a window on the colonial and
post-colonial societies in which these ninety-nine Senators and
their three Clerks lived and worked. It explains how miners,
merchants, constitutionalists, soldiers, printers, trade unionists,
adventurers and pastoralists became Senators, and how, in an
essentially egalitarian society, they melded together as
Australia's first federal parliamentarians. It tells of their work
as legislators during a period when Australia was making a unique
contribution to democracy itself, and reveals the excitement felt
by conservatives and non-conservatives alike as they shaped the
beginnings of an Australian nation. The contribution of these
Senators to Australian public life was immense. The Federationists,
Richard Baker, John Downer, Thomas Playford, Richard O'Connor,
James Walker, Henry Dobson, William Trenwith, Simon Fraser, Josiah
Symon and William Zeal retain some elemens of notoriety. Others,
such as the South Australian farmer, William Russell, or Charles
Montague Graham, a tailor on the Western Australian goldfields,
were soon forgotten, even in their own time. The Biographical
Dictionary of the Australian Senate reveals to a new generation the
influence and the significance of men who came from all sides of
politics and the social spectrum, and were able parliamentarians
and true representatives of the democratic process. This readable
and authoritative work of reference will provide readers with a
biographical account of all Australian senators, and a history of
the Senate since 1901. It makes a scholarly contribution to
historical and parliamentary knowledge and fills many gaps in our
knowledge of less well-known senators whose careers have not been
fully documented before.
The second volume of ""The Biographical Dictionary of the
Australian Senate"" contains individual articles on 103 male
senators and one woman, the spirited Senator Agnes Robertson
Robertson of Western Australia, and the three clerks who served
them. This book presents a very different Australia from that
revealed in Volume 1 of the ""Biographical Dictionary"" (MUP,
2000). The vision of Australia as a fair and equitable society,
cherished so confidently at the time of Federation, now has to be
put into practice in the face of the Depression and the Second
World War. We see senators grappling with an increasingly
mechanised society, major industrial, economic and social problems
and the growing complexities of public policy. Political parties,
strongly influenced by economic conditions and rural politics,
divide and re-group, and as the six states recognise more and more
the extent of Commonwealth power, the Senate asserts its
constitutional equality with the House of Representatives.
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