Posted by admin | Posted in HIV | Posted on 25-08-2010
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- ISBN13: 9780156005814
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This “tender and lyrical” memoir (New York Times Book Review) remains one of the most compelling documents of the AIDS era-”searing, shattering, ultimately hope inspiring account of a great love story” (San Francisco Examiner). A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and the winner of the PEN Center West literary award.
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
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Posted by admin | Posted in HIV | Posted on 23-08-2010
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As complexities of care increases, this book provides a wealth of emerging information, appropriate references and rational guidelines for care. The scope has been expanded to include more information relevant to AIDS care in the developing world.
The Sanford Guide to HIV/AIDS Therapy 2010
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Posted by admin | Posted in HIV | Posted on 20-08-2010
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A portrait of the tragic life and death of supermodel Gia Carangi chronicles her discovery and rise to the heights of the fashion world, her descent into drug addiction, and her death of AIDS at the age of twenty-six.Amazon.com Review
Trashy celebrity bios are usually diminished by the fact that we’ve already heard the stories about Lonnie and Burt, or Madonna and Sean, or whoever the current target is. Author Stephen Fried manages to get all the sleaze value plus a lot of surprises by choosing supermodel Gia Carangi as his topic. Although her face is widely recognized, Gia finished her modeling career in a blaze of heroin and disease just before the time when models became celebrities with name recognition. Her life is the perfect fodder for the exploitation market, but Fried goes beyond that with fluid prose and a reporter’s nose for tracking down sources. His stories about her teenage years, with their mix of late nights in Philadelphia’s gay clubs, manic worship, and glam-style imitation of David Bowie, as well as tales of Gia’s ability to seduce her friends, male and female, are the product of a lot of work and make for very interesting reading. Gia’s unabashed homosexuality and early death from AIDS make her story a palimpsest of life on the edge in the America of the 1980s.
Thing of Beauty
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Posted by admin | Posted in HIV | Posted on 18-08-2010
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At the age of twenty-nine, Sizwe Magadla is among the most handsome, well-educated, and richest of the men in his poverty-stricken village. Dr. Hermann Reuter, a son of old South West African stock, wants to show the world that if you provide decent treatment, people will come and get it, no matter their circumstances.
Sizwe and Hermann live at the epicenter of the greatest plague of our times, the African AIDS epidemic. In South Africa alone, nearly 6 million people in a population of 46 million are HIV-positive. Already, Sizwe has watched several neighbors grow ill and die, yet he himself has pushed AIDS to the margins of his life and associates it obliquely with other people’s envy, with comeuppance, and with misfortune.
When Hermann Reuter establishes an antiretroviral treatment program in Sizwe’s district and Sizwe discovers that close family members have the virus, the antagonism between these two figures from very different worlds — one afraid that people will turn their backs on medical care, the other fearful of the advent of a world in which respect for traditional ways has been lost and privacy has been obliterated — mirrors a continent-wide battle against an epidemic that has corrupted souls as much as bodies.
A heartbreaking tale of shame and pride, sex and death, and a continent’s battle with its demons, Steinberg’s searing account is a tour-de-force of literary journalism.
Sizwe’s Test: A Young Man’s Journey Through Africa’s AIDS Epidemic
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Posted by admin | Posted in HIV | Posted on 15-08-2010
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- ISBN13: 9780312420130
- Condition: New
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In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time.” A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is–just a disease. Cancer, she argues, is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment and, it is highly curable, if good treatment is followed.
Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote a sequel to Illness as Metaphor, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.
These two essays now published together, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, have been translated into many languages and continue to have an enormous influence on the thinking of medical professionals and, above all, on the lives of many thousands of patients and caregivers.
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
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Posted by admin | Posted in HIV | Posted on 13-08-2010
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- ISBN13: 9780393337655
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“[A] rollicking, eye-opening, hilarious account of the underbelly of international AIDS research.”—Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer As an epidemiologist researching AIDS, Elizabeth Pisani has been involved with international efforts to halt the disease for fourteen years. With swashbuckling wit, fierce honesty, and more than a little political incorrectness, she dishes on herself and her colleagues as they try to prod reluctant governments to fund HIV prevention for the people who need it most: drug injectors, gay men, sex workers, and johns. With verve and clarity, Pisani shows the general reader how her profession really works; how easy it is to draw wrong conclusions from “objective” data; and, shockingly, how much money is spent so very badly. 12 illustrations
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS
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Posted by admin | Posted in HIV | Posted on 10-08-2010
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Does the scientific “theory” that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. First published in 1992 this new edition has been updated and a new preface added.
AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame
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Posted by admin | Posted in HIV | Posted on 08-08-2010
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- ISBN13: 9780312427726
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2007
The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa’s AIDS epidemic from the inside–a revelatory dispatch from the intersection of village life, government intervention, and international aid. Helen Epstein left her job in the US in 1993 to move to Uganda, where she began work on a test vaccine for HIV. Once there, she met patients, doctors, politicians, and aid workers, and began exploring the problem of AIDS in Africa through the lenses of medicine, politics, economics, and sociology. Amid the catastrophic failure to reverse the epidemic, she discovered a village-based solution that could prove more effective than any network of government intervention and international aid, an intuitive response that calls into question many of the fundamental assumptions about the AIDS in Africa.
Written with conviction, knowledge, and insight, The Invisible Cure will change how we think about the worst health crisis of the past century–and indeed about every issue of global public health.
The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa
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Posted by admin | Posted in HIV | Posted on 05-08-2010
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AIDS UPDATE 2010 presents a balanced review of current research and information on HIV infection, HIV disease, and AIDS. AIDS UPDATE 2010 places discussion within a biological, medical, and social framework, helping readers more fully understand this devastating pandemic.
AIDS Update 2010
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Posted by admin | Posted in HIV | Posted on 03-08-2010
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- ISBN13: 9780312374631
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Upon it’s first publication twenty years ago, And The Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigatve reporting. An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts’ expose revealed why AIDS was allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80’s while the most trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat. One of the few true modern classics, it changed and framed how AIDS was discussed in the following years. Now republished in a special 20th Anniversary edition, And the Band Played On remains one of the essential books of our time.
In the first major book on AIDS, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts examines the making of an epidemic. Shilts researched and reported the book exhaustively, chronicling almost day-by-day the first five years of AIDS. His work is critical of the medical and scientific communities’ initial response and particularly harsh on the Reagan Administration, who he claims cut funding, ignored calls for action and deliberately misled Congress. Shilts doesn’t stop there, wondering why more people in the gay community, the mass media and the country at large didn’t stand up in anger more quickly. The AIDS pandemic is one of the most striking developments of the late 20th century and this is the definitive story of its beginnings.
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition
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