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Amazon.com Books: HIV AIDS science
Carole Campbell examines the position of women in the AIDS epidemic (women living with HIV, and women caring for HIV-infected family members) in a sociocultural context. Campbell draws a connection among women's risk of AIDS, gender roles (particularly adolescent gender role socialization), and male sexual behavior, demonstrating that efforts to contain the spread of the disease to females must also target the male behavior that puts women at risk. This study concludes that compared with men, HIV-infected women face unequal access to care and unequal quality of care. Informed by the moving personal accounts of eleven HIV-infected men and women, this book offers a rare, broad picture of the sociocultural causes and the impact on American society of AIDS among women.Author: Carole A. Campbell Paperback: 270 pages Company: Cambridge University Press (1999-04-13) ISBN: 0521566797 List Price: $35.99 Amazon Price: $32.97 Used Price: $5.00 
In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to a degree never before seen in medical history. Steven Epstein's astute and readable investigation focuses on the critical question of "how certainty is constructed or deconstructed," leading us through the views of medical researchers, activists, policy makers, and others to discover how knowledge about AIDS emerges out of what he calls "credibility struggles." Epstein shows the extent to which AIDS research has been a social and political phenomenon and how the AIDS movement has transformed biomedical research practices through its capacity to garner credibility by novel strategies. Epstein finds that nonscientist AIDS activists have gained enough of a voice in the scientific world to shape NIH-sponsored research to a remarkable extent. Because of the blurring of roles and responsibilities, the production of biomedical knowledge about AIDS does not, he says, follow the pathways common to science; indeed, AIDS research can only be understood as a field that is unusually broad, public, and contested. He concludes by analyzing recent moves to democratize biomedicine, arguing that although AIDS activists have set the stage for new challenges to scientific authority, all social movements that seek to democratize expertise face unusual difficulties. Avoiding polemics and accusations, Epstein provides a benchmark account of the AIDS epidemic to date, one that will be as useful to activists, policy makers, and general readers as to sociologists, physicians, and scientists. Author: Steven Epstein Paperback: 480 pages Company: University of California Press (1996-01-01) ISBN: 0520214455 List Price: $28.95 Amazon Price: $19.68 Used Price: $5.00 
There are various reasons for taking an interest in the treatment of HIV/ATDS. Unfortunately, AIDS has no consolidated cure at the moment. Medical science still resorts to available treatment options. In seven chapters, this book has been designed to help people seek information about treatment strategies for HIV/AIDS. These include:a general introduction to HIV/AIDS antiretroviral therapy (ART) dynamics of ARV drugs merits and demerits of ARV drugs revival of immune systems in HIV infection foundations of immunosuppression hints for the HIV-positive The book also includes details of websites for further research, review questions for those preparing for coursework or examinations, a glossary of terms and an index. By explaining a complex disease as one that can be understood and managed, HIV/AIDS Treatment Strategies provides clear and useful information about this important topic. The first edition of the book was a bestseller, which sold millions of copies online at Amazon.com alone. This second edition of HIV/AIDS Treatment Strategies has been updated, rearranged, expanded and re-written to provide insight into the current generation of HIV medicine, new ideas about HIV and AIDS and a better health care for the HIV-positive. HIV Treatment Strategies translates the latest science to daily clinical practice. It is the book-to-read to keep abreast of scientific developments in the field of HIV treatment. The revised book is a supportive and educational resource for HIV patients, counsellors, health care professionals, friends and family members who want to play more active roles in the management of HIV and AIDS. It has been up-graded on current research trends about HIV treatment. There is an additional text in chapter one on a tentative HIV ''Cure''. But there is the need for further evidence of the cure in future researches. The book has been fully illustrated. This edition is the current vogue, which replaces the first edition. Book 7 Author: S. D. Browne-Umar Kindle Edition: 233 pages Kindle eBook Company: Amazon (2011-11-16) (2011-11-16) List Price: $21.00 Amazon Price: 
Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City explores the survival strategies of poor, HIV-positive Puerto Rican women by asking four key questions: Given their limited resources, how did they manage an illness as serious as HIV/AIDS? Did they look for alternatives to conventional medical treatment? Did the challenges they faced deprive them of self-determination, or could they help themselves and each other? What can we learn from these resourceful women? Based on her work with minority women living in Newark, New Jersey, Sabrina Marie Chase illuminates the hidden traps and land mines burdening our current health care system as a whole. For the women she studied, alliances with doctors, nurses, and social workers could literally mean the difference between life and death. By applying the theories of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to the day-to-day experiences of HIV-positive Latinas, Chase explains why some struggled and even died while others flourished and thrived under difficult conditions. These gripping, true-life stories advocate for those living with chronic illness who depend on the health care "safety net." Through her exploration of life and death among Newark's resourceful women, Chase provides the groundwork for inciting positive change in the U.S. health care system. Author: Prof. Sabrina Chase Paperback: 228 pages Company: Rutgers University Press (2012-03-22) (2012-02-23) ISBN: 0813553555 List Price: $26.95 Amazon Price: $24.70 Used Price: $26.35 
Educator Patti Lather and psychologist Chris Smithies observed and chronicled support groups for women diagnosed with HIV. Whether black, Latina, poor, or middle class, the women in these groups share the common bond of living with HIV/AIDS, and they describe how it affects their lives in terms full of practical reality and moving poignancy, as they fight the disease, accept, reflect, live, and die with and in it.The authors weave into these accounts their own experiences as researchers, but also as women emotionally tied to the sufferings of sisters, mothers, wives, and lovers with HIV/AIDS.Finally, the reader is provided with statistics and fact boxes that put these women’s words in context for a fuller understanding of the epidemic of HIV/AIDS as it affects its fastest growing population. In an epilogue, Lather and Smithies revisit these women in 1995 and 1996, not only to once again chronicle their lives with HIV/AIDS, but to visit the friends they had made and to mourn the friends they have lost. Author: Patricia A Lather, Christine S Smithies Paperback: 288 pages Company: Westview Press (1997-07-04) ISBN: 0813390168 List Price: $39.00 Amazon Price: $39.00 Used Price: $15.03 
Meet the women behind the statistics!Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on women, the fastest-growing subgroup of the HIV-infected population of the United States. Based on interviews with HIV-infected women, the book gives voice to their experiences. This powerful text offers a firsthand view of what it is like to live day-to-day as a woman with the added burden of HIV/AIDS.Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is a powerful and compelling look at the day-to-day struggles of 37 women infected with HIV. Their stories detail their ongoing efforts—with varying degrees of success—to come to grips with the disease as they try to rebuild their lives. Through qualitative analysis, the book demonstrates the importance of relational resources, such as AIDS activism, support groups, and social support. It also addresses potential problems for women associated with caregiving and presents ethnographic research findings on the complex factors that affect women with HIV (socioeconomic status, sexual preference, lifestyle differences). Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS also addresses research topics such as: how HIV infection affects a woman's sense of self how women repair disruption and restore identities the limits to women's coping strategies and whether those strategies still work if women become functionally impaired or develop AIDS how women's structural and social environments facilitate or impede repair the role of women's informal networks in biological disruption and repairA rare look at the experience of women infected with HIV (most studies focus on male samples), Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is an invaluable academic resource as a course supplement in the fields of medical sociology, women's studies, public health, and community health, and is an enlightening read for everyone interested in HIV/AIDS research.Author: R Dennis Shelby, Desiree Ciambrone Hardcover: 230 pages Company: Routledge (2003-03-04) ISBN: 0789017571 List Price: $175.00 Amazon Price: $108.09 Used Price: $16.99 
AIDS is a continuing worldwide health crisis. Over 25,000,000 people have died from AIDS, and more than 33,000,000 are infected today. While treatments in the developed world have moved AIDS from a fatal to a chronic, highly expensive disease, it remains the sixth greatest cause of death globally and most of those infected in the developing world don't have access to treatments. Here, the AIDS 2031 Commission's experts report on the first 50 years of the AIDS pandemic: the 30 years that have passed since AIDS was first diagnosed, and the prospects and best plans to address the ongoing worldwide AIDS epidemic over the coming 20 years. The authors address the entire scope of the pandemic: basic science, public health, funding, treatment options, and social and societal impacts and review the full range of possible and recommended responses over the next two decades. They carefully assess the progress that has been made, and both persistent and emerging challenges. Written to be easily understandable by all readers, this book is the single best source of reliable information on where the pandemic stands today, where it's headed, and what can be done to create better outcomes between now and 2031. Author: The aids2031 Consortium Hardcover: 224 pages Company: FT Press (2010-12-20) ISBN: 0132172593 List Price: $34.99 Amazon Price: $3.75 Used Price: $0.22 
Women globally, and especially in sub Saharan Africa, are disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS. Despite an intensified focus on women and girls in an attempt to reduce vulnerability to HIV, there has been little progress made. This is in part because the sophisticated analysis of risk, vulnerability and understanding of the pandemics is not matched by equally sophisticated responses. Male domination, evident at every level of society, fuels the pandemics, and makes women vulnerable. Using feminist understandings of power and domination this book explores the notion of subverting power. Through a series of case studies the notion of negative and positive power is examined; positive power includes power with, power to and power within. Examples of women's resistance individually and collectively using the different types of power are highlighted, showing that women are not powerless and can affect change in their lives.Author: Vicci Tallis Hardcover: 248 pages Company: Palgrave Macmillan (2012-08-07) (2012-08-07) ISBN: 0230348807 List Price: $85.00 Amazon Price: $72.91 
It is estimated that 90% of those who are HIV positive are in employment. However, the significant body of literature into HIV/AIDS to date has primarily focused on the medical aspects of the disease and its implications for health/social policy. There has been little analysis of the employment implications of HIV/AIDS, and what does exist is essentially descriptive and usually limited to legal features of the employment relationship. This text provides a review of the theoretical and practical issues which bear upon organisational responses to HIV/AIDS. The authors set these responses in a historical and international context, before analysing recent research findings. In the first three chapters, issues are explored through an analysis which highlights international convergences and divergences. The remaining chapters draw on the authors' research to explore the "internal" dynamics of HIV/AIDS in the workplace.Author: Derek Adam-Smith, David Goss Paperback: 176 pages Company: Taylor & Francis (1995-10-03) ISBN: 0748402594 List Price: $49.95 Amazon Price: $25.08 Used Price: $0.45 
Persuading People to Have Safer Sex offers a lucid, in-depth, student-friendly and academically thorough discussion of AIDS prevention and health persuasion. In so doing it provides an introduction to the ways that social scientific research can be brought to bear on a daunting health problem.Covering many aspects of the AIDS crisis, the book introduces readers to the severity of the AIDS problem and explains the epidemiology of the disease. It discusses why persuasion is so important, explicates cognitive theories of AIDS prevention, and notes the role emotions and communication play in safer sex prevention. It also discusses: *functions that unsafe sex plays in peoples' lives; *why people, notably minority women, frequently choose to engage in unsafe sex; and *social factors underlying the spread of AIDS in urban America and portions of Africa. As a resource for introducing students to the role that theory and research play in health communication and psychology, the volume is appropriate for use in communication, journalism, social psychology, and public health courses, and will be of value to scholars, researchers, and all who seek to understand the use of persuasion in changing behavior. Author: Richard M. Perloff Paperback: 176 pages Company: Routledge (2000-11-03) ISBN: 0805833811 List Price: $28.95 Amazon Price: $21.24 Used Price: $5.01 Amazon.com DVD: HIV AIDS science
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After 13 years and $10 billion worth of research, scientists have yet to find a cure for AIDS. In this report from the front lines of the war on AIDS, state-of-the-art computer animation reveals never before seen views of the AIDS virus at work, and top AIDS researchers explain how they are marshalling all their resources to develop an effective treatment - or a cure. Researchers have mad some surprising discoveries along the way: people who are infected with HIV for more than a decade and remain healthy, and a vaccine that may prevent the disease - although it may carry dangerous side effects. The program explains our current knowledge about AIDS and examines future drugs that may possibly cure, or at least control the disease.VHS Tape: Color Company: Films for the Humanities and Sciences (1994) List Price: $169.95 Amazon Price: Used Price: $45.00 
HIV, or Human Immunodeficiency Virus was first discovered 30 years ago, so it rarely grabs space on the front pages these days. But it remains very much a deadly killer. About 34 million people around the World suffer from it HIV. The virus attacks the body's immune defences, and when they have been destroyed, any number of bacteria, viruses and parasites and fungi can invade the body and play havoc with its systems. That's the condition known as AIDS. Around 2.5 million people have died from AIDS so far, and that number continues to grow because HIV remains such a mystery. Despite millions spent on research the puzzle remains unsolved. This fine documentary takes us carefully step by step through the maze, and reveals where the greatest hopes for a cure are to be found. NTSC - 52 minutes This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply. DVD: NTSC Company: DigiComTV (2010-04-15) List Price: $15.99 Amazon Price: $15.99 Used Price: $21.06 ![HIV/AIDS and Livelihoods Video: Experiences in Mainstreaming from Malawi [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XWCF1SEJL._SL160_.jpg)
What do we mean by ‘mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in development programs’?This video, in NTSC format, introduces some of the realities and complexities of this work. In 2000, the Joint Oxfam Program in Malawi took a strategic decision to increase its understanding of HIV/AIDS and of the impact of the pandemic at a program and policy level. As a result, the Shire Highlands Sustainable Livelihoods Program set out to modify its work to ensure that the most vulnerable in communities are not left out of development processes. By capturing some of the interventions devised in this program in Malawi, this video: * highlights the need to place HIV/AIDS and its effects at the centre of the development programme in order to minimize the impact of HIV/AIDS on people at the community level * shares real experiences of mainstreaming through interviews with Oxfam staff, Village Development Committees, and beneficiaries, and shows the spin-offs of increased community mobilization * raises key issues for planners and policy makers. The video concludes with four questions to provide a focus for viewing and a stimulus to discussion on mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into development programs. There is a booklet of notes for trainers or presenters, including transcripts of key sections of the video. A transcript of the full script is also available to download. "HIV/AIDS and Livelihoods: Experiences in Mainstreaming from Malawi" is designed for those working in the field of development, especially agriculture. It is particularly useful for international and national NGOs and government departments who are looking for ways to mainstream HIV/AIDS within the context of their programs. Author: Oxfam International VHS Tape: NTSC Company: Oxfam Publishing ISBN: 0855985429 List Price: $16.50 Amazon Price: $15.49 Used Price: $14.20
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Director: Sunburst Visual MediaDVD: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC Company: Sunburst Visual Media (2009-09-01) List Price: $119.95 Amazon Price: $105.22 ![HIV / AIDS and Livelihoods [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41lW2AhvV3L._SL160_.jpg)
What do we mean by 'mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in development programmes'? This video introduces some of the realities and complexities of this work. In 2000, the Joint Oxfam Programme in Malawi took a strategic decision to increase its understanding of HIV/AIDS and of the impact of the pandemic at a programme and policy level. As a result, the Shire Highlands Sustainable Livelihoods Programme set out to modify its work to ensure that the most vulnerable in communities are not left out of development processes. By capturing some of the interventions devised in this programme in Malawi, this video: - highlights the need to place HIV/AIDS and its effects at the centre of the development programme in order to minimise the impact of HIV/AIDS on people at the community level - shares real experiences of mainstreaming through interviews with Oxfam staff, Village Development Committees, and beneficiaries, and shows the spin-offs of increased community mobilisation - raises key issues for planners and policy makers. The video concludes with four questions to provide a focus for viewing and a stimulus to discussion on mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into development programmes. There is a booklet of notes for trainers or presenters, including transcripts of key sections of the video. A transcript of the full script is also available to download. HIV/AIDS and Livelihoods: Experiences in Mainstreaming from Malawi is designed for those working in the field of development, especially agriculture. It is particularly useful for international and national NGOs and government departments who are looking for ways to mainstream HIV/AIDS within the context of their programmes.VHS Tape: SECAM, NTSC Company: Oxfam ISBN: 0855985437 List Price: Amazon Price: $15.50
What do we mean by 'mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in development programmes'? This video introduces some of the realities and complexities of this work. In 2000, the Joint Oxfam Programme in Malawi took a strategic decision to increase its understanding of HIV/AIDS and of the impact of the pandemic at a programme and policy level. As a result, the Shire Highlands Sustainable Livelihoods Programme set out to modify its work to ensure that the most vulnerable in communities are not left out of development processes. By capturing some of the interventions devised in this programme in Malawi, this video: - highlights the need to place HIV/AIDS and its effects at the centre of the development programme in order to minimise the impact of HIV/AIDS on people at the community level - shares real experiences of mainstreaming through interviews with Oxfam staff, Village Development Committees, and beneficiaries, and shows the spin-offs of increased community mobilisation - raises key issues for planners and policy makers. The video concludes with four questions to provide a focus for viewing and a stimulus to discussion on mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into development programmes. There is a booklet of notes for trainers or presenters, including transcripts of key sections of the video. A transcript of the full script is also available to download. HIV/AIDS and Livelihoods: Experiences in Mainstreaming from Malawi is designed for those working in the field of development, especially agriculture. It is particularly useful for international and national NGOs and government departments who are looking for ways to mainstream HIV/AIDS within the context of their programmes.
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What do we mean by 'mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in development programmes'? This video introduces some of the realities and complexities of this work. In 2000, the Joint Oxfam Programme in Malawi took a strategic decision to increase its understanding of HIV/AIDS and of the impact of the pandemic at a programme and policy level. As a result, the Shire Highlands Sustainable Livelihoods Programme set out to modify its work to ensure that the most vulnerable in communities are not left out of development processes. By capturing some of the interventions devised in this programme in Malawi, this video: - highlights the need to place HIV/AIDS and its effects at the centre of the development programme in order to minimise the impact of HIV/AIDS on people at the community level - shares real experiences of mainstreaming through interviews with Oxfam staff, Village Development Committees, and beneficiaries, and shows the spin-offs of increased community mobilisation - raises key issues for planners and policy makers. The video concludes with four questions to provide a focus for viewing and a stimulus to discussion on mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into development programmes. There is a booklet of notes for trainers or presenters, including transcripts of key sections of the video. A transcript of the full script is also available to download. HIV/AIDS and Livelihoods: Experiences in Mainstreaming from Malawi is designed for those working in the field of development, especially agriculture. It is particularly useful for international and national NGOs and government departments who are looking for ways to mainstream HIV/AIDS within the context of their programmes.
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Millions of people across the globe erroneously believe America manufactured the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to be used as a biological weapon. Ironically, the idea grew from a real conspiracy theory hatched by Russian and East German intelligence officers in the mid-1980s, in the hopes of spreading misinformation about the disease. Yet while the cold war is over, the biological weapons myth continues to resonate on both sides of the Atlantic. Nicoli Nattrass explores the social and political factors prolonging this fiction, especially within African American and black South African communities. AIDS denialism, the belief that HIV is harmless and that antiretroviral drugs are the true cause of AIDS, is another AIDS conspiracy theory. In fact, it makes a "conspiratorial move" against HIV science by implying its methods cannot be trusted, and that untested, alternative therapies are safer than antiretrovirals. These claims are genuinely life-threatening, as tragically demonstrated in South Africa, when President Thabo Mbeki backed AIDS denialists and discouraged thousands from seeking treatment. Nattrass revisits the South African example and identifies the four symbolically powerful figures ensuring the lifespan of AIDS denialism: the hero scientist (or dissident scientists who lend their credibility to the movement), the cultropreneur (alternative therapists who exploit the conspiratorial move as a marketing mechanism), the living icon (individuals who claim to be living proof of AIDS denialism's legitimacy), and the praise-singer (the journalist who broadcasts movement messages to the public). These figures are also common to anti-vaccine campaigns. Nattrass then describes how scientists and activists have deployed empirical evidence and political credibility to resist AIDS conspiracy theories, especially within the U.S., and she connects their work to the larger movement to defend evidence-based medicine. Author: Nicoli Nattrass Kindle Edition: 240 pages Kindle eBook Company: Columbia University Press (2012-02-21) (2012-02-21) List Price: Amazon Price: 
If you like courtroom drama in the style of John Grisham, you’ll want to read this book. If you ever knew someone with AIDS or HIV, you need to read this book. If you still believe the government and the FDA are protecting you against deadly diseases and dangerous drugs, you must read this book! "WRONGFUL DEATH: The AIDS Trial" is a work of fiction based on fact: the true story behind the government lies and incompetence, gross medical malpractice, and unbridled greed by a drug company that caused our American AIDS epidemic and cost 300,000 lives in just ten years. Follow along with attorney Benjamin Messick and health reporter Sarah Meadows in this class-action lawsuit as they expose the man who claims to have discovered the cause of AIDS, Dr. Robert Gallo. Dr. Gallo announced to the world at a press conference on April 23, 1984 that a virus later to be called HIV was the culprit. Unfortunately, Dr. Gallo’s peers were never given the chance to prove his theories, and still can’t to this day. In the last twenty years, Dr. Gallo has been exposed as nothing more than a common criminal, a thief, and a liar. He finally admitted he had stolen the AIDS virus from a French researcher. He also stole another virus from the Japanese. He lied on his patent application for the HIV blood test. A congressional investigation found Dr. Gallo guilty of “intellectual recklessness of a high degree,” and the Office of Research Integrity of the Department of Health and Human Services found Dr. Gallo guilty of scientific misconduct and called some of Dr. Gallo's key AIDS research, “of dubious scientific merit” and “really crazy.” As one German scientist put it, Dr. Gallo is “an American scientific gangster who has committed so many crass, self-aggrandizing blunders…that he could not really be relied upon to tell the time correctly.” Attorney Messick questions a number of witnesses who all agree with 2700 of the world’s leading doctors and medical researchers today, including Nobel Prize winners in chemistry and medicine and members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, that HIV cannot cause AIDS. At the end of the book you'll find out what actually DOES cause AIDS. The testimony in this court case finally discloses that in the decade from 1987 to 1997, three-hundred-thousand Americans (mostly homosexual men) died NOT from some horrible disease they caught from a virus, but as a result of taking the very drug they were told would cure them. Urged on by their doctors, parents, families and loved-ones, these HIV-positives took AZT, a drug originally designed and created in 1964 to kill cancer cells, but never approved because it was found to be far too toxic to a human body. Read the testimony of witness after witness - all based on over 900 actual medical and scientific research papers and reports - that when the FDA finally approved AZT for the treatment of AIDS in 1987, it began causing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; and every person who took it - healthy or not at the time - would die within three years from one of many different opportunistic diseases. Be prepared for the anger and outrage you will feel when you realize that hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children are still being murdered today in Africa with AZT, simply because they have been declared to be HIV-positive, while the drug company rakes in billions of dollars in profits. The question remains: After 30 years and 300 billion dollars, why don't we have a cure or a vaccine for AIDS? The witnesses in this court case provide the only answer that makes any sense: We have the wrong cause. "I enjoyed the book. It read like a cross between a John Grisham legal thriller and an informative scientific treatise on AIDS."- D.D. Steele, attorney "Congratulations Mr. Davis, you actually pulled it off and created a legitimate page-turner from the debacle of HIV/AIDS."- Harvey Bialy, author Author: Stephen Davis Kindle Edition: 392 pages Kindle eBook Company: L&G Productions LLC (2010-10-13) (2010-10-13) List Price: $2.99 Amazon Price: 
Author: J.M.Paskin Kindle Edition: 32 pages Kindle eBook Company: Taylor & Francis (2007-03-14) (2007-03-14) List Price: $10.80 Amazon Price: 
Persuading People to Have Safer Sex offers a lucid, in-depth, student-friendly and academically thorough discussion of AIDS prevention and health persuasion. In so doing it provides an introduction to the ways that social scientific research can be brought to bear on a daunting health problem.$linebreak$Covering many aspects of the AIDS crisis, the book introduces readers to the severity of the AIDS problem and explains the epidemiology of the disease. It discusses why persuasion is so important, explicates cognitive theories of AIDS prevention, and notes the role emotions and communication play in safer sex prevention. It also discusses:$linebreak$*functions that unsafe sex plays in peoples‘ lives;$linebreak$*why people, notably minority women, frequently choose to engage in unsafe sex; and$linebreak$*social factors underlying the spread of AIDS in urban America and portions of Africa.$linebreak$As a resource for introducing students to the role that theory and research play in health communication and psychology, the volume is appropriate for use in communication, journalism, social psychology, and public health courses, and will be of value to scholars, researchers, and all who seek to understand the use of persuasion in changing behavior.Author: RICHARD.M. PERLOFF Kindle Edition: 167 pages Kindle eBook Company: LEA (2009-03-28) (2009-03-28) List Price: $28.95 Amazon Price: 
Educator Patti Lather and psychologist Chris Smithies observed and chronicled support groups for women diagnosed with HIV. Whether black, Latina, poor, or middle class, the women in these groups share the common bond of living with HIV/AIDS, and they describe how it affects their lives in terms full of practical reality and moving poignancy, as they fight the disease, accept, reflect, live, and die with and in it.The authors weave into these accounts their own experiences as researchers, but also as women emotionally tied to the sufferings of sisters, mothers, wives, and lovers with HIV/AIDS.Finally, the reader is provided with statistics and fact boxes that put these women’s words in context for a fuller understanding of the epidemic of HIV/AIDS as it affects its fastest growing population. In an epilogue, Lather and Smithies revisit these women in 1995 and 1996, not only to once again chronicle their lives with HIV/AIDS, but to visit the friends they had made and to mourn the friends they have lost. Author: Patricia A Lather, Christine S Smithies Kindle Edition: 288 pages Kindle eBook Company: Westview Press (1997-07-04) (1997-07-04) List Price: $39.00 Amazon Price: 
A generation after it was first discovered, what do most Americans know about HIV/AIDS? Do they know how it is transmitted and treated? How it can be prevented? How do they feel about people who are living with HIV and government efforts to combat the epidemic? "Impressions Of HIV/AIDS In America: Building Public Support For Workable Solutions To End The Epidemic" is based on urban, suburban and rural focus groups and interviews with AIDS experts. The attitudes and public opinion revealed in this study, by the nonpartisan research and citizen engagement group Public Agenda, are a milestone for public policymakers as they consider which strategies might be most effective.Author: Public Agenda Kindle Edition: 51 pages Kindle eBook Company: (2009-05-10) (2009-05-10) List Price: $1.00 Amazon Price: 
This is the eBook version of the printed book. AIDS is a continuing worldwide health crisis. Over 25,000,000 people have died from AIDS, and more than 33,000,000 are infected today. While treatments in the developed world have moved AIDS from a fatal to a chronic, highly expensive disease, it remains the sixth greatest cause of death globally and most of those infected in the developing world don't have access to treatments. Here, the AIDS 2031 Commission's experts report on the first 50 years of the AIDS pandemic: the 30 years that have passed since AIDS was first diagnosed, and the prospects and best plans to address the ongoing worldwide AIDS epidemic over the coming 20 years. The authors address the entire scope of the pandemic: basic science, public health, funding, treatment options, and social and societal impacts and review the full range of possible and recommended responses over the next two decades. They carefully assess the progress that has been made, and both persistent and emerging challenges. Written to be easily understandable by all readers, this book is the single best source of reliable information on where the pandemic stands today, where it's headed, and what can be done to create better outcomes between now and 2031. Author: The aids2031 Consortium Kindle Edition: 224 pages Kindle eBook Company: FT Press (2010-12-09) (2010-12-09) List Price: $27.99 Amazon Price:
In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to a degree never before seen in medical history. Steven Epstein's astute and readable investigation focuses on the critical question of "how certainty is constructed or deconstructed," leading us through the views of medical researchers, activists, policy makers, and others to discover how knowledge about AIDS emerges out of what he calls "credibility struggles."
Epstein shows the extent to which AIDS research has been a social and political phenomenon and how the AIDS movement has transformed biomedical research practices through its capacity to garner credibility by novel strategies. Epstein finds that nonscientist AIDS activists have gained enough of a voice in the scientific world to shape NIH-sponsored research to a remarkable extent. Because of the blurring of roles and responsibilities, the production of biomedical knowledge about AIDS does not, he says, follow the pathways common to science; indeed, AIDS research can only be understood as a field that is unusually broad, public, and contested. He concludes by analyzing recent moves to democratize biomedicine, arguing that although AIDS activists have set the stage for new challenges to scientific authority, all social movements that seek to democratize expertise face unusual difficulties. Avoiding polemics and accusations, Epstein provides a benchmark account of the AIDS epidemic to date, one that will be as useful to activists, policy makers, and general readers as to sociologists, physicians, and scientists. Author: Steven Epstein Kindle Edition: 484 pages Kindle eBook Company: University of California Press (1996-12-09) (1996-01-01) List Price: $28.95 Amazon Price: 
Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City explores the survival strategies of poor, HIV-positive Puerto Rican women by asking four key questions: Given their limited resources, how did they manage an illness as serious as HIV/AIDS? Did they look for alternatives to conventional medical treatment? Did the challenges they faced deprive them of self-determination, or could they help themselves and each other? What can we learn from these resourceful women? (20990101)Based on her work with minority women living in Newark, New Jersey, Sabrina Marie Chase illuminates the hidden traps and land mines burdening our current health care system as a whole. For the women she studied, alliances with doctors, nurses, and social workers could literally mean the difference between life and death. By applying the theories of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to the day-to-day experiences of HIV-positive Latinas, Chase explains why some struggled and even died while others flourished and thrived under difficult conditions. These gripping, true-life stories advocate for those living with chronic illness who depend on the health care "safety net." Through her exploration of life and death among Newark's resourceful women, Chase provides the groundwork for inciting positive change in the U.S. health care system. Author: Prof. Sabrina Chase Kindle Edition: 228 pages Kindle eBook Company: Rutgers University Press (2011-02-21) (2011-02-21) List Price: Amazon Price: 
In this landmark collection of personal essays, stories, brief memoirs, and polemics, a broad swath of black Americans unite to bear witness to the devastation AIDS has wrought on their community. Not in My Family marks a new willingness on the part of black Americans—whether prominent figures from the worlds of politics, entertainment, or sports, or just ordinary folks with extraordinary stories — to face the scourge that has affected them disproportionately for years. Editor Gil Robertson has enlisted a remarkable group of contributors, including performers like Patti LaBelle, Mo’Nique, and Hill Harper; bestselling authors like Randall Robinson and Omar Tyree; political leaders like Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders; religious leaders like Rev. Calvin Butts, and many, many more. Author: Gil L. Robertson Kindle Edition: 334 pages Kindle eBook Company: Agate Bolden (2006-12-01) (2006-12-01) List Price: $15.00 Amazon Price: |
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