Product Description: During the early years of the AIDS epidemic, thousands of Americans became infected with HIV through the nation's blood supply. Because little reliable information existed at the time AIDS first began showing up in hemophiliacs and in others who had received transfusions, experts disagreed about whether blood and blood products could transmit the disease...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A new collection of inspirational speeches from the renowned AIDS activist--who lost her husband to AIDS and is HIV positive herself--reflects her crusade for compassion, tolerance, and a non-judgmental response to AIDS and its causes. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Plague Doctors highlights culturally based differences between French and American medicine, not only in health care delivery, but in the way each system constructs the interaction between disease and the human body. This work challenges the assumption that biomedicine is uniform across the western world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Since its publication in 1991, Robert Walker's book has become the standard student text on AIDS--for courses dealing with both social issues and natural disasters or epidemics. This completely revised second edition is updated through the spring of 1994 and includes data released at that time.With a broad-based introduction, utilizing a wide-range of sources in a unified and manageable way, Walker uses the virus itself, its characteristics, and our perception of it, as the foundation for his analysis. The character of the epidemic is seen as a function of the virus, thus his examination integrates politics, economics, avoidance issues, and scientific research with the biology of HIV.Topics include discussions of linguistic usages and metaphors applied to AIDS and their consequent policy significance; the impact of the epidemic on those professional groups engaged in researching cures and treatments; a historical-epidemiological comparison of the bubonic plague and the AIDS epidemic; the policy implications deriving from the nature of HIV itself; behavior impact on individuals seeking to avoid AIDS; avoidance strategy and risk assessment; economic and political impacts; and a conjectural view of the future through the prism of the current epidemic.

The founder of the Family AIDS Network and noted AIDS activist describes her own battle with an HIV-positive diagnosis, her strategies for dealing with the disease, and the need for family support and the elimination of prejudice. 30,000 first printing.

A public health professor explains why he feels that the heterosexual middle class is not at risk for AIDS and how, by turning a public health crisis into a civil rights issue, politicians and activists have allowed the disease to spread. Original.

Product Description: Intravenous drug users account for nearly one-third of the current AIDS cases in the United States--second only to gay males--and are responsible for 72 percent of female and 59 percent of pediatric cases of AIDS. Thus the National Institute of Drug Abuse launched a major effort in 1987 to locate hidden users and to see how they function and to evaluate strategies and community-based programs in 50 cities and 60 nearby communities around the country in order to lower risks to IV users and to reduce the dangers that they pose to others in the population...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A report on women and the AIDS epidemic uncovers the growing population of women infected with the virus and describes the many female activists, scientists, and caretakers who are working to keep the disease in check

Product Description: Arthur Kahn traces the history of the struggle for recognition of and action on behalf of the AIDS epidemic. He describes the heroic struggle for survival by persons with AIDS and their allies for survival. He documents the sophisticated and effective mobilization of AIDS activists in the face of apathy from the Reagan and Bush administrations...read more

Essays by policymakers, practicing attorneys, and physicians examine the many legal issues raised by the AIDS epidemic and the ways society, through its laws, can and should respond

An anthology of articles debating AIDS-related issues, including the prevention and treatment of AIDS, the necessity of AIDS testing, funding for research, and the seriousness of the epidemic

Product Description: This is the first book to tackle the relationship of black people to AIDS. The main issue addressed is whether the disproportionately high rates of AIDS in black people has a genetic basis. The issue is discussed in terms of epidemiologic, basic science, and clinical research data in a comprehensive manner...read more

Product Description: The interviews and conversations of Homosexuality and Sexuality: Dialogues of the Sexual Revolution survey a broad cross-section of the academic and scholarly opinions that have shaped contemporary thinking about homosexuality and sexuality...read more

Product Description: An uncommon emphasis on the epidemic. Authors deal with risk and prevention, care both home and institutional, and social consequences of AIDS in old people. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Essays discusses the ethical, medical, administrative, and economic aspects of AIDS, as well as the rights of patients and health care workers

A collection of editorials on the AIDS crisis and its applications for the nation