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Tracing the rich tradition of AIDS legends in relation to current scholarship on belief, Diane Goldstein shows how such stories not only articulate widespread perceptions of risk, health care, and health policy, they also influence official and scientific approaches to the disease and its management. Notions that appear in narratives of who gets AIDS, how and why, are indicators of broad issues involving health beliefs, concerns, and needs.

Since reports of the first cases of HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s, contemporary, or “urban,” legends about origins of the virus, modes of transmission, deliberate infection, withheld treatment, and minority genocide have proliferated. Told cross-culturally, stories recount HIV-filled needles in movie theatre seats, pinpricks in drugstore shelf condoms, semen in fast food, and HIV-positive sexual predators. Though fascinating, intriguing, and often frightening, these narratives more than merely entertain. They warn and inform, articulate notions of risk, provide political commentary on public health actions, and offer insight into the relationship between cultural and health truths. As parts of community discourse about the nature of disease, legends provide powerful information about cultural understandings of the virus.

In Once Upon a Virus Diane Goldstein explores the story-making activities that have surrounded the AIDS epidemic, focussing on the potential implications of legend discourse for public health. When taken seriously, with respect for both the narratives and their tellers, AIDS legends enable understanding of perceptions of risk, reveal local views of public health efforts, and highlight areas of health care and education that need to be improved. Goldstein demonstrates, however, that AIDS narratives not only articulate perceptions of disease realities, they also create those realities. Told within scientific and official sectors as well as lay communities, legends play a significant role in medical, legal, and educational responses to the disease and its management. Through a series of legend case studies, this volume explores how narrative constructs the way we interact with disease, creating cultural scripts for both personal and scientific decision-making.

Once Upon A Virus

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Tracing the rich tradition of AIDS legends in relation to current scholarship on belief, Diane Goldstein shows how such stories not only articulate widespread perceptions of risk, health care, and health policy, they also influence official and scientific approaches to the disease and its management. Notions that appear in narratives of who gets AIDS, how and why, are indicators of broad issues involving health beliefs, concerns, and needs.

Since reports of the first cases of HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s, contemporary, or “urban,” legends about origins of the virus, modes of transmission, deliberate infection, withheld treatment, and minority genocide have proliferated. Told cross-culturally, stories recount HIV-filled needles in movie theatre seats, pinpricks in drugstore shelf condoms, semen in fast food, and HIV-positive sexual predators. Though fascinating, intriguing, and often frightening, these narratives more than merely entertain. They warn and inform, articulate notions of risk, provide political commentary on public health actions, and offer insight into the relationship between cultural and health truths. As parts of community discourse about the nature of disease, legends provide powerful information about cultural understandings of the virus.

In Once Upon a Virus Diane Goldstein explores the story-making activities that have surrounded the AIDS epidemic, focussing on the potential implications of legend discourse for public health. When taken seriously, with respect for both the narratives and their tellers, AIDS legends enable understanding of perceptions of risk, reveal local views of public health efforts, and highlight areas of health care and education that need to be improved. Goldstein demonstrates, however, that AIDS narratives not only articulate perceptions of disease realities, they also create those realities. Told within scientific and official sectors as well as lay communities, legends play a significant role in medical, legal, and educational responses to the disease and its management. Through a series of legend case studies, this volume explores how narrative constructs the way we interact with disease, creating cultural scripts for both personal and scientific decision-making.

Once Upon A Virus

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This is a user-friendly reference on all aspects of office-based anorectal surgery for general surgeons and surgeons in training. Well-illustrated, this practical manual shows step-by-step procedures for commonly performed anorectal procedures. The book includes ancillary considerations of ambulatory surgery with timely chapters on set-up of the facility, anesthetic considerations, selection of patients, pre-op and post-op management, nursing aspects, and coding and billing.

Ambulatory Anorectal Surgery

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Get the latest assessment of the health needs of the transgender population

The impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the transgender community has been tragically ignored, and as yet there is surprisingly little research data on the subject of health care and HIV prevention in this marginalized population. Transgender Health and HIV Prevention fills this void by providing a groundbreaking empirical assessment of the health needs of transgender persons in several areas around the United States. Respected experts discuss issues that hinder the effectiveness of HIV prevention programs, including housing, mental health, and employment, as well as the unique broader problems of social stigma, discrimination, and the lack of transgender knowledge and sensitivity on the part of health providers and prevention workers.

Even though recent studies show estimated HIV infection rates to be as much as 60 percent among specific transgender populations in the United States, the transgender community continues to receive inadequate healthcare support. Transgender Health and HIV Prevention tackles the problems inherent in the healthcare system by first assessing the needs of transgender persons, then offering specific practical recommendations for remedy. Top researchers in partnership with community members in San Francisco, Houston, Washington DC, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, New England, San Juan, and Minneapolis/St. Paul bring empirical data together to assess what has to be done to effectively stem the HIV epidemic. This essential resource is extensively referenced with several tables to clarify data.

Transgender Health and HIV Prevention explores in detail:

• health and social services needs of African-Americans, Latinas, and Asian/Pacific Islanders
• sources for the high rates of HIV infection among male-to-female transgender persons
• the prevalence of physical and sexual violence, substance abuse, and unemployment in the transgender community
• risk behaviors of male-to-female transgender persons
• health care providers’ ignorance, insensitivity, and discrimination—with training strategies to increase patient access and effectiveness of care
• how traditional notions about femininity affect risk behaviors
• a comparison between transgender persons and other sexual minorities

Transgender Health and HIV Prevention is crucial, one-of-a-kind reading for educators, students, researchers, public health professionals, social workers, health care providers, HIV/AIDS caregivers, and prevention workers.

Transgender Health And HIV Prevention: Needs Assessment Studies from Transgender Communities Across the United States

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If you discovered the meaning of life, would you share it? What would you choose as a sign, a symbol of that meaning? And, what would it be like if, at any given moment, especially when you were troubled or hurting, that particular symbol appeared in your life?

That is exactly what is happening to many people all around the world who were touched by the life of a man, Robert Marron, a seeker of the meaning of life, who died from the disease called AIDS.

Much has been said about the tragedy of the disease called AIDS. And it is just that: a tragedy. No matter how one contracts this disease, it is one of the most horrific processes of death one can go through.

It is extremely painful for the person going through the process and is tremendously taxing on those primary caregivers who assist them during their time of demise.

This story is about a man who was not only my friend, but my spiritual teacher as well. This story is about the changes he made in the lives of those around him and the lessons he gave to the world. The purpose of this book is to have those lessons passed on through me and through others in whom he worked his magic.

It has been said that no one really knows why zebras have stripes. Some say that the stripes are used for protective measures to make it difficult for predators to pinpoint any one individual zebra in a herd. Another thought is that the striping helps to keep the herds together, thus keeping them safer as a group than any one zebra would be individually. In fact, studies have suggested that zebras are attracted by all stripes, even artificial ones.

It is my hopes that the “Zebra Sense” presented within this book will draw each and everyone of us closer to each other within this herd known as the “human tribe”.Product Description
If you discovered the meaning of life, would you share it? What would you choose as a sign, a symbol of that meaning? And, what would it be like if, at any given moment, especially when you were troubled or hurting, that particular symbol appeared in your life?

That is exactly what is happening to many people all around the world who were touched by the life of a man, Robert Marron, a seeker of the meaning of life, who died from the disease called AIDS.

Much has been said about the tragedy of the disease called AIDS. And it is just that: a tragedy. No matter how one contracts this disease, it is one of the most horrific processes of death one can go through.

It is extremely painful for the person going through the process and is tremendously taxing on those primary caregivers who assist them during their time of demise.

This story is about a man who was not only my friend, but my spiritual teacher as well. This story is about the changes he made in the lives of those around him and the lessons he gave to the world. The purpose of this book is to have those lessons passed on through me and through others in whom he worked his magic.

It has been said that no one really knows why zebras have stripes. Some say that the stripes are used for protective measures to make it difficult for predators to pinpoint any one individual zebra in a herd. Another thought is that the striping helps to keep the herds together, thus keeping them safer as a group than any one zebra would be individually. In fact, studies have suggested that zebras are attracted by all stripes, even artificial ones.

It is my hopes that the “Zebra Sense” presented within this book will draw each and everyone of us closer to each other within this herd known as the “human tribe”.

The Zebra Hunter

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HIV/AIDS: Global Frontiers in Prevention/Intervention provides a comprehensive overview of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. The unique anthology addresses cutting-edge issues in HIV/AIDS research, policymaking, and advocacy.

Key features include:

· Nine original essays from leading scholars in public health, epidemiology, and social and behavioral sciences

· Comprehensive information for individuals with varying degrees of knowledge, particularly regarding methodological and theoretical perspectives

· A look into the future progression of HIV transmission and scholarly research

HIV/AIDS: Global Frontiers in Prevention/Intervention is will serve as a precious resource as a textbook and reference for the university classroom, libraries, and researchers

HIV/AIDS: Global Frontiers in Prevention/Intervention

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Inner-city black women open their hearts to share the pain of crack addiction and its consequences

Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women documents an American tragedy that highlights the widening gap between social and economic classes. In their own words, poor black women—nameless, faceless, and marginalized by poverty—share the details of their lives before and after crack cocaine invaded their communities, each recalling the circumstances of her introduction to the drug and her first experience using sex to support her addiction. These candid interviews expose the socioeconomic changes in inner-city neighborhoods that created the perfect conditions for a crack stronghold; the crack cocaine economy’s impact on the lives of inner-city residents; and the social and familial consequences of crack addiction among poor, black women.

Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women places crack addiction, crack-related prostitution and its consequences, STDs, HIV, and pregnancy into the context of the larger social issues of inner-city poverty, race, gender, and class. This unique book reveals the sex-for-crack barter system as evidence of a long-term social exclusion and systemic racism that has worked to destroy the self-image of poor black American women. The women interviewed reflect this negative image, exchanging sex for crack on a regular basis to support their addictions at the risk-and reality-of unplanned pregnancies.

“The baby I am carrying now, I don’t know who the father is. There are a few (men) that I had sex with around the time I got pregnant—that day. But which one it is, I don’t know who.”

Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women examines:

• why poor black women addicted to crack are disproportionately at risk for sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, and unplanned pregnancies
• how the social and economic characteristics of poor black communities support crack distribution and consumption
• how crack use and the exchange of sex for crack damages struggling black families
• why the care of many children is entrusted to child welfare agencies
• how and why women are marginalized in the crack culture

Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women is an insightful and enlightening look at the motivations behind the decision to risk illness, injury, disease, death, and pregnancy to support addiction.

Behind The Eight Ball: Sex For Crack Cocaine Exchange And Poor Black Women

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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 Care at Home: A Guide for Caregivers, Loved Ones, and People with AIDS

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Primary HIV/AIDS Care: A Practical Guide for Primary Care Personnel in a Clinical and Supportive Setting

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This women-centred approach to analyzing the different impacts of the pandemic on women and men, and how HIV/AIDS function as a paradigm for other women’s issues. Questions addressed include: what is the relationship between AIDS and women’s health, sexuality and socio-economic status?; is there a feminist agenda on AIDS?; how have women been portrayed in discourse about the epidemic?; are women living with the virus treated differently from men?; and what activities put women at risk?. This work (which is not intended as a handbook for women living with or affected by HIV/AIDS) draws on evidence from the UK, the EC and the US.

Vamps, Virgins, and Victims: How Can Women Fight AIDS?