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Download or read book AIDS written by Elizabeth Fee and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the responses of societies in times past to deadly diseases and illnesses, exploring the relevance of, and the lessons to be learned from, these events in terms of the current AIDS crisis.
Download or read book AIDS at 30 written by Victoria A. Harden and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A Grassroots History of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in North America by : James Gillett
Download or read book A Grassroots History of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in North America written by James Gillett and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in North America, with particular emphasis on the role of HIV/AIDS activists and organizations. The author is a professor of sociology.
Book Synopsis The African AIDS Epidemic by : John Iliffe
Download or read book The African AIDS Epidemic written by John Iliffe and published by James Currey. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book John Iliffe charts the emergence and spread of AIDS throughout Africa and explores both its causes and international responses to the ongoing epidemic.
Book Synopsis After Silence by : Avram Finkelstein
Download or read book After Silence written by Avram Finkelstein and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a protest poster of a pink triangle with the words “Silence = Death.” The graphic and the slogan still resonate today, often used—and misused—to brand the entire movement. Cofounder of the collective Silence = Death and member of the art collective Gran Fury, Avram Finkelstein tells the story of how his work and other protest artwork associated with the early years of the pandemic were created. In writing about art and AIDS activism, the formation of collectives, and the political process, Finkelstein reveals a different side of the traditional HIV/AIDS history, told twenty-five years later, and offers a creative toolbox for those who want to learn how to save lives through activism and making art.
Book Synopsis AIDS and Contemporary History by : Virginia Berridge
Download or read book AIDS and Contemporary History written by Virginia Berridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on the 'pre-history' of the impact of AIDS, and its subsequent history.
Download or read book The Epidemic written by Jonathan Engel and published by Collins. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Visual History of HIV/AIDS by : Elisabet Björklund
Download or read book A Visual History of HIV/AIDS written by Elisabet Björklund and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Face of AIDS film archive at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, consists of more than 700 hours of unedited and edited footage, shot over a period of more than thirty years and all over the world by filmmaker and journalist Staffan Hildebrand. The material documents the HIV/AIDS pandemic and includes scenes from conferences and rallies, and interviews with activists, physicians, people with the infection, and researchers. It represents a global historical development from the early years of the AIDS crisis to a situation in which it is possible to live a normal life with the HIV virus. This volume brings together a range of academic perspectives – from media and film studies, medical history, gender studies, history, and cultural studies – to bear on the archive, shedding light on memories, discourses, trauma, and activism. Using a medical humanities framework, the editors explore the influence of historical representations of HIV/AIDS and stigma in a world where antiretroviral treatment has fundamentally altered the conditions under which many people diagnosed with HIV live. Organized into four sections, this book begins by introducing the archive and its role, setting it in a global context. The first part looks at methodological, legal and ethical issues around archiving memories of the present which are then used to construct histories of the past; something that can be particularly controversial when dealing with a socially stigmatized epidemic such as HIV/AIDS. The second section is devoted to analyses of particular films from the archive, looking at the portrayal of people living with HIV/AIDS, the narrative of HIV as a chronic illness and the contemporary context of particular films. The third section looks at how stigma and trauma are negotiated in the material in the Face of AIDS film archive, discussing ideas about suffering and culpability. The final section contributes perspectives on and by the filmmaker as activist and auteur. This interdisciplinary collection is placed at the intersection of medical humanities, sexuality studies and film and media studies, continuing a tradition of studies on the cultural and social understandings of HIV/AIDS.
Download or read book History Of Aids written by Glanz Veronika and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The young were once considered relatively safe from HIV/AIDS. Today, more than half of all new infections strike people under the age of 25. Girls are hit harder and younger than boys. Infant and child death rates have risen sharply, and 14 million children are now orphans because of the disease. The world's two billion children and adolescents are at the center of the HIV/AIDS crisis. And yet they are the ones who offer the greatest hope for defeating the epidemic.
Book Synopsis A History of AIDS Social Work in Hospitals by : Barbara I Willinger
Download or read book A History of AIDS Social Work in Hospitals written by Barbara I Willinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the in-hospital evolution of social work with HIV/AIDS patients! A History of AIDS Social Work in Hospitals: A Daring Response to an Epidemic presents first-hand historical perspectives from frontline hospital social workers who cared for HIV/AIDS patients during the epidemic’s beginning in the early 1980s. Contributors recount personal and clinical experiences with patients, families, significant others, bureaucracies, and systems during a time of fear, challenge, and extreme caution. Their experiences illustrate the transformation of social work as the development of new programs and treatments increased the lifespan of HIV/AIDS patients. A History of AIDS Social Work in Hospitals portrays the nature of human suffering and teaches how clients deal with adversity and overcome devastating obstacles. At the same time this book, which, while nonfiction, reads like a novel, opens a window into the world of social work providers working with an illness once considered taboo (and now referred to as simply “chronic”). A History of AIDS Social Work in Hospitals provides you with an easy-to-understand medical overview of adult and pediatric infectious diseases that often accompany HIV/AIDS and examines: the evolution of social work with hospitalized patients during the first twenty years of the pandemic the important roles of social workers in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and South Carolina challenges that resulted from improved medications and longer life expectancy the status of current HIV/AIDS care programs the development of HIV/AIDS case management in emergency room settings the benefits of developing custody planning programs for HIV-infected families the challenges of working with perinatally infected adolescents With case studies and thoughtful analysis of the history of city, state, and national case management responses to the AIDS crisis, A History of AIDS Social Work in Hospitals is a valuable book for educators, students, historians, beginning mental health practitioners, social workers, case managers, substance abuse counselors, and anyone interested in stories of human courage. Make it part of your collection today!
Book Synopsis Diseases in History by : Kevin Cunningham
Download or read book Diseases in History written by Kevin Cunningham and published by Morgan Reynolds Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1970s, when doctors began treating people dying of symptoms both mysterious and seemingly commonplace, they initially didn't suspect that the variety of illnesses they saw were all related to a single virus: the human immunodeficiency virus HIV, and the syndrome it causes, AIDS. But researchers soon pieced together the evidence and realized they were facing a new and troubling disease. Worse, those afflicted often didn't show symptoms for several years after infection, giving the virus plenty of time to spread. Some thought the virus would be easily contained, but soon it became clear that HIV/AIDS was a global problem. Since its discovery, HIV/AIDS has been one of the defining diseases of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Despite advances in knowledge and treatment, it remains uncured, and infects millions of people throughout the world each year. To compound the problems, the governments, scientists, and activists working to combat the disease face a constant struggle against ignorance and greed. Book jacket.
Download or read book Epidemic written by Jonathan Engel and published by . This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the AIDS epidemic from all angles and across the world. Weaves together science, politics, and culture, noting the excesses of the more radical edges of the ACT UP movement as well as the conservative religious leaders who thought AIDS victims deserved what they got. For gay Americans, it has been the story of the past generation, redefining the community and its sexuality. For the Third World, AIDS has created devastation, toppling economies, social structures, and whole villages and regions. And AIDS is expanding quickly into India, Russia, China, and elsewhere, while still raging in sub-Saharan Africa. There is much drama and heroism here. ¿Allows us to relive the short but tumultuous history of a modern scourge.¿ Photos.
Download or read book History of Aids written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Grmek's research, AIDS manifested itself around 1952 - more than a quarter century before the commonly recognized date. Contrary to what is firmly believed, AIDS surfaced several times in Europe before the arrival of the HIV virus from the other side of the Atlantic.
Download or read book History of AIDS written by Mirko D. Grmek and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By drawing on the latest discoveries in virology, microbiology, and immunology, Mirko Grmek depicts the AIDS epidemic not as an isolated incident but as part of the long, but far from peaceful, coexistence of humans and viruses.
Book Synopsis The Origins of AIDS by : Jacques Pépin
Download or read book The Origins of AIDS written by Jacques Pépin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital of Zaire, Jacques Pépin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in central Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of modern times. He shows how the disease was first transmitted from chimpanzees to man and then how military interventions, urbanisation, prostitution and large-scale colonial medical campaigns intended to eradicate tropical diseases combined to disastrous effect to fuel the spread of the virus from its origins in Léopoldville to the rest of Africa, the Caribbean and ultimately worldwide. This is an essential perspective on HIV/AIDS and on the lessons that must be learned as the world faces another pandemic.
Book Synopsis The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil by : Amy Nunn
Download or read book The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil written by Amy Nunn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil’s public policy response to the AIDS epidemic preceded those of many developing countries. During my tenure as President, in 1996, Brazil adopted a law guaranteeing free and universal access to AIDS treatment for all people living with HIV/AIDS. Brazil became the first developing country to provide publicly-financed AIDS treatment for all people living with HIV/AIDS. We now have one of the world’s most successful AIDS programs that is considered a model for other dev- oping countries. Today, 185,000 people receive life-saving AIDS cocktails in Brazil, and thousands of lives have been saved. But this was not an easy battle. There were many challenges along the way. Twenty years ago, Brazil’s achie- ments today might have seemed impossible. During the 1980s, in Brazil, as elsewhere, there was overwhelming stigma associated with AIDS; people living with HIV often lost their jobs and died quickly before the advent of life-saving antiretroviral drugs. Brazil’s AIDS movement was extraordinarily important in promoting progressive AIDS policies; associations of people living with HIV were the first to denounce pervasive AIDS-related discri- nation and called public attention to the importance of AIDS. Activists protested in the streets for over a decade, engaged the media, and framed AIDS as a human rights issue.
Book Synopsis The AIDS Crisis by : Douglas A. Feldman
Download or read book The AIDS Crisis written by Douglas A. Feldman and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1998-06-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of the HIV and AIDS viruses and discusses their impact on the world.
