The editors of this remarkable volume have collected 18 essays by humanists about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. AIDS seems to seek out as its victims the weakest and already victimized, writes Albert R. Jonsen, describing the inhumanity of this disease. Jonsen states that scientists have already fashioned a language for describing the disease in objective, clinical terms. What is needed now is a language to describe the human experience and instruct us on how to live humanely while AIDS is among us. To help construct this language, this collection examines AIDS from the perspective...

Is cancer a systemic disease? Does regional nodal metastases instigate distant metastasis or promote failure at the primary site? These are just two of the issues discussed in this new volume based on the results of a symposium on the diagnosis, significance and treatment of occult regional nodal metastases in the most common types of cancer. "Occult Nodal Metastasis in Solid Carcinomata" presents material for all levels of interest--from basic science to clinical application, and will be of practical use to medical libraries, oncologists, radiologists, clinical pathologists,...

The Latin Amnerican drug trade has become one of the major problems confronting the United States in the late twentieth century. The key dynamic of that trade is cocaine, which is primarily produced in the Andean nations of Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru. The cocaine trade's influence, however, has spread outwards into other Andean states--Chile, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Moreover, countries on the Andean periphery, such as Panama, have become enmeshed in the trade as transit points and money-lanudering centers. This book examines the cocaine trade in the Andean states and Panana with a special...