When Pascal James Imperato, MD, assumed the edi­ • Exclusion by the New York State Departm~nt of Health of qualified laboratories from HIV testmg torship of the New York State Journal of Medicine in 198~, the acquired immunodeficiency syndro. me (AIDS) epI­ • Protection of health care workers • Responsibilities of physicians and other health care demic in the United States was already SIX years old. Dur­ ing the time of his editorship, two thematic issues of the workers Journal have been devoted to AIDS. In addition, a large • Public education number of original communications have been regularly • AIDS confidentiality published on the subje~t. This volume ?rings together The Symposium on AIDS in Washington, DC, had important articles published on AIDS m the Journal been so successful that the MSSNY, under the auspices of during 1987 and 1988. . . the task force and the Division of Governmental Affairs, In the early years of the epidemic the Medical Society of held two informational symposia for state senators and the State of New York (MSSNY) was aware that it had a assemblymen and their staffs in Albany, New York. Thes. e responsibility to both the professi?~ an~ the public to add were presented in February 1988 and. March. 1989. ,!,hIS its efforts to those already mobIlized m the attempt to effort has convinced the MSSNY that It has given legisla­ understand and control this tragic disease. Early on, the tors a better understanding of the overall AIDS problem.

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Product Description: The last of the major African lakes to be visited by European travelers in the late nineteenth century, Lake Rudolf lies in the eastern arm of the great Rift Valley in present-day northern Kenya, near the Ethiopian border. Also known as Lake Turkana, Lake Rudolf is a large saltwater body two hundred miles long and forty miles wide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Imperato, drawing upon recent scholarship, expands his coverage of pre-colonial Malian history. This edition contains a detailed and up-to-date chronology of Malian history, a dozen tables, six detailed maps, a list of abbreviations and acronyms, and an extensive cross-referenced dictionary. The extensive dictionary is inclusive...scholars of Africa should find this much expanded edition useful and easy to use. --ARBA Excellent introduction to the history of Mali... --AFRIQUE CONTEMPORAINE

Profiles the couple who explored Africa and the South Seas in the 1920s and 1930s, photographing the scenery and wildlife

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