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Author | : Loren K. Clarke |
Publisher | : Branden Books |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : AIDS (Disease) |
ISBN | : 9780828319188 |
The book begins with a detailed and technical journey into the laboratories where the keys to the understanding of the virus were forged in the early years of the search for the infectious agent of AIDS. The discovery of the virus, which was originally called HTLV-III/LAV and which became known as HIV, is only a small part of the saga.
Author | : Christine Grady |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1995-05-22 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780253112729 |
"The book is a balanced and comprehensive treatment of an important social issue. It is accessible to the general reader and belongs in public as well as academic libraries." -- Religious Studies Review "Painstaking analysis of the knotty ethical problems involved in human-subjects research, and a well-thought-out proposal for a community approach to conducting field trials for an HIV vaccine.... Highly recommended for medical ethicists and anyone concerned about the AIDS epidemic and how HIV research is conducted."Â -- Kirkus Reviews "... a carefully reasoned account of how research for and trial of a preventive vaccine differ from the methods used to discover a therapy."Â -- Booklist "I highly recommend reading this book which I would attest to be a thrilling, ethically challenging, and informative descent into the allopathic solution." -- Ryan Hosken, Bastyr University Library Newsletter "As the scientific effort to produce an efficacious vaccine continues, [Grady's] work provides an ethical compass that will guide us well, regardless of where phase III HIV vaccine trials ultimately occur." -- Journal of the American Medical Association "Highly recommended... " -- AIDS Book Review Journal "A remarkable treatment of a most difficult and complex subject... Grady's book is of special merit because it is simple, readable, and understandable, while conveying in-depth perceptions that are critical to the reader. A useful and essential reference work for those who would engage in the initiative to bring about a resolution of a mighty human health problem." -- Maurice R. Hilleman, Ph.D., D.Sc., Director, Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research "Dr. Grady's important study captures the complexity of the search for an AIDS vaccine with startling clarity. Her insights into the full range of forces that shape our national response to AIDS vaccine development should read like signposts to vaccinologists, AIDS community activists, and most importantly, the Public Health Service. An impressive contribution." -- Derek Hodel, Gay Men's Health Crisis "This book is recommended to medical ethicists, those involved in non-HIV vaccine trials, and all persons involved in HIV vaccine trials, including investigators, sponsors, study subjects and communities at risk." -- Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law The creation of a vaccine now seems the best hope for controlling AIDS. Yet developing and testing an HIV vaccine raises a host of difficult ethical issues. These concerns are the focus of this timely and important book. Essential reading for everyone interested in ethics and the conduct of HIV vaccine research.
Author | : Nancy F. McKenzie |
Publisher | : Plume |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nancy F. McKenzie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : AIDS (Disease) |
ISBN | : |
A broad collection of essays and feature articles which address medical, social and political issues. This anthology brings together some of the most informed, topical, and thought-provoking writing on the AIDS epidemic by people and groups such as Larry Kramer, Gay Men's Health Crisis N.Y., Anthony Fauci, George Whitmore, and Act Up.
Author | : Jeffrey Laurence |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : AIDS (Disease) |
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Author | : Penny S. Cass |
Publisher | : Kendall Hunt Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780840351432 |
Author | : Wendy Flanagan |
Publisher | : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780435899622 |
The JAWS HIV/AIDS raders aim to instil the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that will enable our children to conquer the pandemic that is sweeping through our world.
Author | : Perry N. Halkitis |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0199352461 |
For young gay men who came of age in the United States in the 1980s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was a formative experience in fear, hardship, and loss. Those who were diagnosed before 1996 suffered an exceptionally high rate of mortality, and the survivors -- both the infected individuals and those close to them -- today constitute a "bravest generation" in American history. The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience examines the strategies for survival and coping employed by these HIV-positive gay men, who together constitute the first generation of long-term survivors of the disease. Through interviews conducted by the author, it narrates the stories of gay men who have survived since the early days of the epidemic; documents and delineates the strategies and behaviors enacted by men of this generation to survive it; and examines the extent to which these approaches to survival inform and are informed by the broad body of literature on resilience and health. The stories and strategies detailed here, all used to combat the profound physical, emotional, and social challenges faced by those in the crosshairs of the AIDS epidemic, provide a gateway for understanding how individuals cope with chronic and life-threatening diseases. Halkitis takes readers on a journey of first-hand data collection (the interviews themselves), the popular culture representations of these phenomena, and his own experiences as one of the men of the AIDS generation. This riveting account will be of interest to health practitioners and historians throughout the clinical and social sciences -- or to anyone with an interest in this important chapter in social history. Cover photo courtesy of Fire Island Pines Historical Preservation Society.
Author | : Victoria A. Harden |
Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1597972940 |
Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and reemerging diseases will continue to challenge humanity. AIDS at 30 is the first history of HIV/AIDS written for a general audience that emphasizes the medical response to the epidemic. Award-winning medical historian Victoria A. Harden approaches the AIDS virus from philosophical and intellectual perspectives in the history of medical science, discussing the process of scientific discovery, scientific evidence, and how laboratories found the cause of AIDS and developed therapeutic interventions. Similarly, her book places AIDS as the first infectious disease to be recognized simultaneously worldwide as a single phenomenon. After years of believing that vaccines and antibiotics would keep deadly epidemics away, researchers, doctors, patients, and the public were forced to abandon the arrogant assumption that they had conquered infectious diseases. By presenting an accessible discussion of the history of HIV/AIDS and analyzing how aspects of society advanced or hindered the response to the disease, AIDS at 30 illustrates for both medical professionals and general readers how medicine identifies and evaluates new infectious diseases quickly and what political and cultural factors limit the medical community’s response.
Author | : Nicoli Nattrass |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231149123 |
Examines conspiracy theories surrounding HIV and AIDS, focusing on two main widely believed falsehoods--that America manufactured AIDS to be a biological weapon and the belief that HIV is harmless and the true cause of AIDS are antiretroviral drugs.