This is a refreshing and readable book in which AIDS is used as a lens to understand the public health enterprise ranging from leprosy and syphilis to tuberculosis and SARS.
Since the mid-1980s, Simon Watney has been one of the leading voices in the international field of HIV/AIDS education. His monthly column on AIDS in Britain's Gay Times is the...
" -John S. James, editor, AIDS Treatment News 'In persuasive detail.Kahn demonstrates [that] the struggle against AIDS requires a continuous fight against vested interests that have little regard for alternative ideas and against egotists ...
An updated edition of Jacques Pépin's acclaimed account of the events that transformed a chimpanzee virus into a global pandemic.
However, there were important differences between the VA study and the other studies that led to a continuation of the VA trial, later published by Hamilton, Hartigan, Simberkoff, et al. (1992). First, the therapeutic questions were ...
Watchman Nee deals with the attitude believers should have towards the book of Revelation as well as the ways and means of understanding it.
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 ...
In this book ethnographic, historical and epidemiologic data are brought to bear on the subject of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Haiti.
Why do some African states commit more effectively than others to the fight against AIDS? How do power inequalities and decisionmaking institutions shape Africa?s ability to combat the disease? Within...
The book is based on original data and field studies from Brazil, Thailand, India and Sub-Saharan Africa.