Aids Hiv category: 276 books
Who's Gonna Notice Anyway
Er Nurse Manager Deals with Aids
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2000
A career woman, proud and successful, a Nursing supervisor, wants things her way. She gets life on her terms until she deals with AIDS in her professional and personal life. Emergency Department supervisor, Mary , fights a budget and changing health care finances. She deals with an employees alcoholic...
A Plague on All Our Houses
Medical Intrigue, Hollywood, and the Discovery of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A frightening new plague. A medical mystery. A pioneering immunologist. In A Plague on All Our Houses, Dr. Bruce J. Hillman dissects the war of egos, money, academic power, and Hollywood clout that advanced AIDS research even as it compromised the career of the scientist who discovered the disease....
Fatal Advice
How Safe-Sex Education Went Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 1996
The American public responded to the first cases of AIDS with fear and panic. Both policymakers and activists were concerned not only with stopping the spread of the disease, but also with guiding the public’s response toward those already infected. Fatal Advice is an examination of how the nation...
Childhood Sexuality and AIDS Education
The Price of Innocence
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Primary schoolchildren are frequently shielded from education on sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases in an effort to protect their innocence. In countries like South Africa, where AIDS is particularly widespread, it is especially important to address prevention with younger boys and girls...
Hold Tight Gently
Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In December 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the United States alone, over 318,000 people had already died from AIDS-related...
Negotiating Pharmaceutical Uncertainty
Women's Agency in a South African HIV Prevention Trial
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Telling the story of a clinical trial testing an innovative gel designed to prevent women from contracting HIV, Negotiating Pharmaceutical Uncertainty provides new insight into the complex and contradictory relationship between medical researchers and their subjects. Although clinical trials attempt...
Behind the Eight Ball
Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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,...
by Thomas E. Yingling
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Thomas Yingling was a rising star in American studies, a leading figure in gay and lesbian studies, and a prominent theorist of AIDS and cultural politics when he died in 1992. AIDS and the National Body is a brilliant excursion into the mind and heart of Yingling, author of the critically acclaimed...
Build It and They Will Come
Lessons from the Northern Economic Corridor: Mitigating HIV and Other Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Infrastructure development brings immediate and obvious benefits to communities. What isn't as immediately obvious is that such development can also open the way for negative changes---such as the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. This report examines the impact on the local people of an important...
by Henning Mankell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
“A deeply moving account of Henning Mankell’s personal responses to AIDS and its victims, both parents and children left behind far too soon.” —Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The internationally famous creator of the bestselling Kurt Wallander mysteries tells the true story of a heartrending...
AIDS in Asia
A Continent in Peril
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
AIDS in Asia provides a thorough introduction to the social and economic issues surrounding the AIDS epidemic in Asia including:
* Geographic obstacles to health care
* Gender inequality and human trafficking
* Political turmoil and poor leadership
* Asia's role in the sex and drug trade
* Economic...
Body Counts
A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The founder of POZ magazine shares “a captivating…eyewitness account from inside the AIDS epidemic” (Next) and “a moving, multi-decade memoir of one gay man’s life” (San Francisco Chronicle).
As a politics-obsessed Georgetown freshman, Sean Strub arrived in Washington, DC, from...
AIDS Literature and Gay Identity
The Literature of Loss
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This book discusses the significance of late twentieth century and early twenty first century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is depicted and constructed textually. Pearl develops Freudian psychoanalytic theory in a complex account of the...
AIDS Activist
Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2003
Michael Lynch, the central figure of this book, was a long-time gay activist and a dynamic force in organizing an early response to the AIDS epidemic. Lynch's prescient articles in The Body Politic spoke to the gay communities of Toronto, New York, and San Francisco. His organizing efforts meant change...