ilość książek w kategorii: 398
AIDS Prevention and Services: Community Based Research
ISBN: 9780897892650 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Community based organizations assist participants in developing social skills and familiar language for negotiating and practicing safer, non-risky behaviors. AIDS education and awareness is best achieved in local community groups through the use of interactive group sharing and non-professional language. Supportive and informed mutual aid can be extended through community based organizations and can alleviate the psychological effects of isolation, homophobia, abandonment, and political disinterest created by society at large. AIDS therapy and prevention is best accomplished in settings... Community based organizations assist participants in developing social skills and familiar language for negotiating and practicing safer, non-risky... |
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216,22 zł |
Plague Doctors: Responding to the AIDS Epidemic in France and America
ISBN: 9780897893855 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "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. The author, a medical doctor and anthropologist, provides an ethnographic look into the daily experiences of physicians and researchers, examining how members of the French and American medical communities construct their models of AIDS through discourse and practice. The book is based... "Plague Doctors" highlights culturally based differences between French and American medicine, not only in health care delivery, but in the way eac... |
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576,07 zł |
Workplace Drug Abuse and AIDS: A Guide to Human Resource Management Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9780899306247 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the 1980s, the issue of substance abuse testing became increasingly important to employers. And now the growing problem of AIDS and its impact on the workplace provides a related area of concern. In this work, Donald Klingner tells human resource professionals what they need to know about both these topics. The book carefully details the effects these problems have on employers, and provides specific recommendations for human resource management policy and practice which can reduce the employer's costs and legal liability risks while preserving employee rights. Following a... Throughout the 1980s, the issue of substance abuse testing became increasingly important to employers. And now the growing problem of AIDS and its ... |
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576,07 zł |
Hiv/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Politics, Aid and Globalization
ISBN: 9780230221420 / Angielski / Twarda / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explains how issues of governance lie at the heart of understanding and combating the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa. It reviews the debates surrounding the root causes of the pandemic and its continuing proliferation and examines the local and global socio-political forces that have contributed to the spread and impact of the disease.
This book explains how issues of governance lie at the heart of understanding and combating the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa. It reviews the debates surr...
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194,97 zł |
My Secret Place: Living with AIDS & Addiction - A Man Who Gave Up Homosexuality for God
ISBN: 9780981935744 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,05 zł |
Brushing Away the Tears
ISBN: 9781935118763 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Brushing Away the Tears" paints a portrait of a life lived with and taken by AIDS. It is the true story of Christopher Colt's journey through HIV/AIDS, and it is told in his own words, through his journals and letters, and through the journals and letters of his mother. The entries begin in 1989 when Christopher was diagnosed with HIV and ends a few months before his death in 1992 at age 39. A budding artist, Christopher details the heartbreaking fear of knowing that his time is limited and that his life is more than likely coming to an end. The footnote narrative is provided by...
"Brushing Away the Tears" paints a portrait of a life lived with and taken by AIDS. It is the true story of Christopher Colt's journey through HIV/AID...
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57,34 zł |
South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour and Communication Survey, 2008 : A Turning Tide Among Teenagers?
ISBN: 9780796922915 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. South Africa's first national, household sero-prevalence survey of HIV and AIDS was conducted in 2002. A second survey was completed in 2005 and this, the third, in 2008.
South Africa's first national, household sero-prevalence survey of HIV and AIDS was conducted in 2002. A second survey was completed in 2005 and this,...
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123,13 zł |
From social silence to social science : Same-sex sexuality, HIV & AIDS and gender in South Africa
ISBN: 9780796922762 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting a unique and innovative effort to examine what is known about homosexual transmission of HIV and AIDS in South Africa, this investigative study reverses the trend whereby categories of same-sex sexual practice are almost always excluded from research as well as from care and intervention programs in the developing world. Drawing particular attention to the risk behaviors and treatment needs of South Africans who engage in homosexual sex, the results of this study explain why same-sex sexuality is increasingly noted in today s efforts to study, test, and prevent the spread of HIV...
Presenting a unique and innovative effort to examine what is known about homosexual transmission of HIV and AIDS in South Africa, this investigative s...
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155,33 zł |
HIV/AIDS Treatment Strategies
ISBN: 9781847487247 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are various reasons for taking an interest in the treatment for HIV/AIDS. Unfortunately, AIDS has no cure at the moment. But in the absence of a cure, medical science resorts to available treatment options. In seven chapters, this handy book has been designed to help people seek information about treatment strategies for HIV/AIDS. These include: a general introduction to HIV/AIDS antiretroviral therapy (ART) dynamics of ARV drugs merits and demerits of ARV drugs revival of immune systems in HIV infection foundations of immunosuppression hints for the HIV-positive. The book also includes...
There are various reasons for taking an interest in the treatment for HIV/AIDS. Unfortunately, AIDS has no cure at the moment. But in the absence of a...
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110,31 zł |
Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe: Hiv/AIDS and Traditional Healers
ISBN: 9780826518071 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As sub-Saharan Africa continues to confront the runaway epidemic of HIV/AIDS, traditional healers have been tapped as collaborators in prevention and education efforts. The terms of this collaboration, however, are far from settled and continually contested. As Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe demonstrates, serious questions continue to linger in the medical community since the explosion of the disease nearly thirty years ago. Are healers obstacles to health development? Do their explanations for the disease disregard biomedical science? Can the worlds of traditional healing and modern...
As sub-Saharan Africa continues to confront the runaway epidemic of HIV/AIDS, traditional healers have been tapped as collaborators in prevention and ...
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605,76 zł |
Lost Raven
ISBN: 9789780979270 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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95,92 zł |
Primary HIV Clinical Care: For Adults, Children and Pregnant Women
ISBN: 9781770099845 / Angielski / Miękka / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A user-friendly and practical guide for primary care doctors and nurses, the manual is used in treating and managing people with HIV at the primary care level. The book is useful for counsellors, social workers, psychologists and therapists, and will serve as a valuable reference in clinics and hospitals. This 5th Edition, of what was previously known as Primary HIV/AIDS Care, has been siginificantly revised and reissued with updates on new developments in anti-retroviral therapy and the HIV care of children.
A user-friendly and practical guide for primary care doctors and nurses, the manual is used in treating and managing people with HIV at the primary ca...
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171,70 zł |
At Odds with AIDS: Thinking and Talking about a Virus
ISBN: 9780804724371 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does it mean to oppose AIDS, to be at odds with AIDS? What kind of rupture with history does AIDS represent? How does AIDS and what is said about AIDS relate to gay identity? How does AIDS relate to thinking and acting, particularly deconstructive thinking? The author confronts these questions from a broad philosophical background that ranges from Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger to contemporary thought concerning gay activism and AIDS research, all brought together in an effort to find a philosophical language capable of doing justice to the singularity of lived experience in...
What does it mean to oppose AIDS, to be at odds with AIDS? What kind of rupture with history does AIDS represent? How does AIDS and what is said about...
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550,50 zł |
Responding to HIV/AIDS
ISBN: 9780830837618 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Where did AIDS come from? What are the symptoms? Is the rate of AIDS going up or down in developed countries? What can one person do? In this Skeptic's Guide(TM) Dale Hanson Bourke sheds light on key places, terms, history and current issues surrounding HIV/AIDS. The crisis that became a pandemic is now something different, and this third edition provides an up-to-the-minute perspective on this complex issue. With charts and photos, facts and quotes, this dynamic guide offers the type of presentation that has made the Skeptic's Guide(TM) series so popular with individuals and groups.
Where did AIDS come from? What are the symptoms? Is the rate of AIDS going up or down in developed countries? What can one person do? In this Skeptic'...
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75,06 zł |
The Church and HIV/AIDS Epidemic
ISBN: 9781625099204 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The work is an explicit revelation of how the Church can take its position in the global struggle against HIV/AIDS epidemic. It highlights the spiritual, social and economic potentials of the Church to make impressive contribution to arrest the exploits of HIV/AIDS in human population. The book also presents strategies for Christians and corporate Churches to increase their spiritual energy by connecting the all-knowing, all-powerful and the all-loving God for increased know-how, and operational competence. It promotes the formation of God-Human synergy as necessary requirement for behavioral...
The work is an explicit revelation of how the Church can take its position in the global struggle against HIV/AIDS epidemic. It highlights the spiritu...
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81,52 zł |
The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Education Worldwide
ISBN: 9781781902325 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Given the context and prevalence of HIV/AIDS worldwide, this volume presents information, policy case studies, and empirical research for use by educators, policymakers, and organizations about the relationship between HIV/AIDS and education, including how HIV/AIDS has impacted education systems and the potential impact education has on HIV/AIDS.
Given the context and prevalence of HIV/AIDS worldwide, this volume presents information, policy case studies, and empirical research for use by educa...
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574,06 zł |
Comprehensive Care for Hiv/AIDS: Community-Based Strategies
ISBN: 9781138791787 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive health care system consists of services that are coordinated and integrated along the full continuum of care. For HIV patients, this includes physical health care, infectious disease management, crisis care, mental health care, substance abuse counseling, and social support services including housing, transportation, subsistence, and supports for dealing with multiple sources of stigma. This book highlights the dilemmas faced in providing comprehensive, integrated care to individuals living with HIV, providing both an understanding of existing efforts to integrate diverse... A comprehensive health care system consists of services that are coordinated and integrated along the full continuum of care. For HIV patients, thi... |
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713,61 zł |
Body Counts: A Memoir of Activism, Sex, and Survival
ISBN: 9781451661965 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The founder of POZ magazine shares "a captivating...eyewitness account from inside the AIDS epidemic" (Next) and "a moving, multi-decade memoir of one gay man's life" (San Francisco Chronicle). As a politics-obsessed Georgetown freshman, Sean Strub arrived in Washington, DC, from Iowa in 1976, with a plum part-time job running a Senate elevator in the US Capitol. He also harbored a terrifying secret: his attraction to men. As Strub explored the capital's political and social circles, he discovered a parallel world where powerful men lived double lives shrouded in...
The founder of POZ magazine shares "a captivating...eyewitness account from inside the AIDS epidemic" (Next) and "a moving, multi-decade...
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81,40 zł |
AIDS and the Social Sciences: Common Threads
ISBN: 9780813155098 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though more than 150,000 AIDS-related deaths have been reported worldwide and between 5 and 10 million people are now infected with its precursor, HIV-1, the deadly and relatively new AIDS virus is still a mystery. AIDS and the Social Sciences: Common Threads, an enlightening examination of the AIDS epidemic from the viewpoints of various social sciences, provides us with clues to that mystery. The essays' original research and firsthand accounts from social scientists offer an excellent overview of the research agendas and directions for a disease that is an increasing presence in... Though more than 150,000 AIDS-related deaths have been reported worldwide and between 5 and 10 million people are now infected with its precursor, ... |
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117,23 zł |
Promoting Abstinence, Being Faithful, and Condom Use with Young Africans: Qualitative Findings from an Intervention Trial in Rural Tanzania
ISBN: 9780739100172 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Promotion of the low risk "ABC" behaviors--Abstinence, Being faithful, and Condom use--has had only limited success in Africa. This book draws on a large qualitative study affiliated with an adolescent intervention trial to examine how ABC promotion can be improved. It evaluates the MEMA kwa Vijana sexual health program, which was implemented in 62 primary schools and 18 health facilities in rural Tanzania, scrutinizing its teacher-led curriculum, peer education, youth-friendly health services, youth condom distribution, and community mobilization components. The book examines how...
Promotion of the low risk "ABC" behaviors--Abstinence, Being faithful, and Condom use--has had only limited success in Africa. This book draws on a la...
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300,47 zł |