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Encyclopedic Dictionary of AIDS-Related Terminology
ISBN: 9780789007148 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Defines words, phrases, and medical terms associated with HIV and AIDS, and includes entries that discuss related legal, social, psychological, and religious issues.
Defines words, phrases, and medical terms associated with HIV and AIDS, and includes entries that discuss related legal, social, psychological, and re...
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481,80 |
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Social Work Theory and Practice with the Terminally Ill
ISBN: 9780789010827 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social Work Theory and Practice with the Terminally Ill, second edition, takes a compassionate look at ways that social workers can help dying people and their families. The social workers who work most effectively with terminally ill patients and their families are the ones who best understand the multifaceted nature of the dying process and its impact on the the patient, the family, and even on the health care professionals who work with patients at the end of life. Dr. Parry--who specializes in dying and bereavement--offers astute observations on the stages of dealing with the diagnosis of...
Social Work Theory and Practice with the Terminally Ill, second edition, takes a compassionate look at ways that social workers can help dying people ...
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670,62 |
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Social Work Theory and Practice with the Terminally Ill
ISBN: 9780789010834 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social Work Theory and Practice with the Terminally Ill, second edition, takes a compassionate look at ways that social workers can help dying people and their families. The social workers who work most effectively with terminally ill patients and their families are the ones who best understand the multifaceted nature of the dying process and its impact on the the patient, the family, and even on the health care professionals who work with patients at the end of life. Dr. Parry--who specializes in dying and bereavement--offers astute observations on the stages of dealing with the diagnosis of...
Social Work Theory and Practice with the Terminally Ill, second edition, takes a compassionate look at ways that social workers can help dying people ...
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173,82 |
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The AIDS Movie: Representing a Pandemic in Film and Television
ISBN: 9780789011077 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the ways that AIDS has been represented in American movies over the past two decades, defines and proposes criteria for identifying an AIDS movie, and explores how these films shape social opinions about AIDS and gay men. Discusses several character types such as innocent victims and guilty villains and looks at the process of victim
Examines the ways that AIDS has been represented in American movies over the past two decades, defines and proposes criteria for identifying an AIDS m...
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769,98 |
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The AIDS Movie: Representing a Pandemic in Film and Television
ISBN: 9780789011084 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Going beyond the current media research, The AIDS Movie extends the systematic study of media representations of AIDS to include American movies, discussing the ongoing social construction and reconstruction of the AIDS pandemic through film. This study proposes criteria for identifying an AIDS movie and analyzes the representation of AIDS in nearly three dozen such films, all made within the first two decades of the AIDS pandemic. Analysis focuses on social ramifications for gay men and all members of American society; the concept of otherness; and alternative ways of representing AIDS in...
Going beyond the current media research, The AIDS Movie extends the systematic study of media representations of AIDS to include American movies, disc...
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293,03 |
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Evaluating Hiv/AIDS Treatment Programs: Innovative Methods and Findings
ISBN: 9780789011909 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Create effective community-based programs for substance abusers with HIV/AIDS Substance abusers are the fastest-growing population of people with HIV/AIDS in the US--and one of the hardest to reach and treat. Evaluating HIV/AIDS Treatment Programs offers new strategies for providing care for this vulnerable population. The programs evaluated and discussed in this volume were funded as part of the DHHS Health Resources and Services Administration through its Special Projects of National Significance Program. Collectively known as the SPNS Cooperative Agreement, these 27 projects...
Create effective community-based programs for substance abusers with HIV/AIDS Substance abusers are the fastest-growing population of people...
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208,58 |
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Encyclopedic Dictionary of AIDS-Related Terminology
ISBN: 9780789012074 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A complete and accurate compendium of HIV and HIV-related terms that includes not just advanced medical terminology but also the slang used in everyday conversation. Aimed primarily at the medical world and health care practitioners, it will also be of interest to the lay reader who wants clear and useful definitions of the words, phrases and medical terms associated with HIV/AIDS.
A complete and accurate compendium of HIV and HIV-related terms that includes not just advanced medical terminology but also the slang used in everyda...
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148,97 |
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Women's Experiences with Hiv/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves
ISBN: 9780789017574 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meet the women behind the statistics Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on women, the fastest-growing subgroup of the HIV-infected population of the United States. Based on interviews with HIV-infected women, the book gives voice to their experiences. This powerful text offers a firsthand view of what it is like to live day-to-day as a woman with the added burden of HIV/AIDS.Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is a powerful and compelling look at the day-to-day struggles of 37 women infected with HIV. Their stories...
Meet the women behind the statistics Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on women, t...
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645,78 |
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Hotel Ritz - Comparing Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes : Factors in HIV/AIDS Transmission
ISBN: 9780789017758 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bellis (public administration, California State U.-San Bernardino) presents the results of his research on HIV and AIDS transmission in this comparative study of female street prostitutes in San Bernadino, California and several Mexican cities. He concludes that the effects of US drug and prostituti
Bellis (public administration, California State U.-San Bernardino) presents the results of his research on HIV and AIDS transmission in this comparati...
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695,46 |
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Hotel Ritz - Comparing Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes: Factors in Hiv/AIDS Transmission
ISBN: 9780789017765 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explore ways to reduce the rate of HIV infection in street prostitutes--and the inescapable connection between the heroin trade, prostitution, and HIV This unique book draws on face-to-face interviews that the author conducted on the streets, with heroin-addicted street prostitutes in Southern California and their counterparts in four large Mexican cities. Author David James Bellis illustrates the significant--and surprising--differences in the risk of exposure to HIV and other STDs that exist between street prostitutes in the two countries arising from national...
Explore ways to reduce the rate of HIV infection in street prostitutes--and the inescapable connection between the heroin trade, prostitution, and HIV...
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198,65 |
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Couples of Mixed HIV Status : Clinical Issues and Interventions
ISBN: 9780789018519 / Angielski / Twarda / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Identifies common emotional challenges facing couples of mixed HIV status and provides a conceptual framework for assessment and intervention.
Identifies common emotional challenges facing couples of mixed HIV status and provides a conceptual framework for assessment and intervention.
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645,78 |
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Couples of Mixed HIV Status: Clinical Issues and Interventions
ISBN: 9780789018526 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Identifies common emotional challenges facing couples of mixed HIV status and provides a conceptual framework for assessment and intervention.
Identifies common emotional challenges facing couples of mixed HIV status and provides a conceptual framework for assessment and intervention.
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223,49 |
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Lesbian Women and Sexual Health: The Social Construction of Risk and Susceptibility
ISBN: 9780789024787 / Angielski / Twarda / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interviewer: Where did you find out how to have safe lesbian sex?
Val: I found out in jail. Why do so many lesbian women engage in sexual behavior that puts their health, even their lives, at risk? Many know they're at risk, yet somehow feel safe enough to behave as if there is no reason to practice safe sex. Lesbian Women and Sexual Health: The Social Construction of Risk and Susceptibility examines how lesbian women perceive their level of risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). It describes how their perceptions of risk and... Interviewer: Where did you find out how to have safe lesbian sex?
Val: I found out in jail. Why do so many lesbian women... |
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769,98 |
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Lesbian Women and Sexual Health: The Social Construction of Risk and Susceptibility
ISBN: 9780789024794 / Angielski / Miękka / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interviewer: Where did you find out how to have safe lesbian sex?
Val: I found out in jail. Why do so many lesbian women engage in sexual behavior that puts their health, even their lives, at risk? Many know they're at risk, yet somehow feel safe enough to behave as if there is no reason to practice safe sex. Lesbian Women and Sexual Health: The Social Construction of Risk and Susceptibility examines how lesbian women perceive their level of risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). It describes how their perceptions of risk and... Interviewer: Where did you find out how to have safe lesbian sex?
Val: I found out in jail. Why do so many lesbian women... |
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243,36 |
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The Geometry of Care: Linking Resources, Research, and Community to Reduce Degrees of Separation Between HIV Treatment and Prevention
ISBN: 9780789032119 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Connect multiple resources to form effective strategies to deal with AIDS
An effective strategy to deal with the AIDS epidemic is to have a wide range of scientists, clinicians, front-line workers, and clients distribute theory, care, and resource knowledge geometrically through all levels. The Geometry of Care: Linking Resources, Research, and Community to Reduce Degrees of Separation Between HIV Treatment and Prevention shows how to link bottom-up and top-down approaches to advance care, services, resources, training, theory, and policy analysis. Leading authorities draw upon... Connect multiple resources to form effective strategies to deal with AIDS
An effective strategy to deal with the AIDS epidemic is to have a... |
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993,51 |
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The AIDS Notebooks
ISBN: 9780791403341 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reflects on the meaning of contemporary life in the light of diverse social reactions to AIDS. Drawing on personal interviews with gay men in Montreal, newspaper reports, government action, historical parallels, and other social facts, the author shows what the AIDS phenomenon can reveal about the nature of current reality. Intimate dimensions of experience are explored in order to understand the medical definition of human life, the 'post-modern' character of the contemporary period, and the pervasive influence of technique. The social analysis of AIDS is interwoven with personal,...
This book reflects on the meaning of contemporary life in the light of diverse social reactions to AIDS. Drawing on personal interviews with gay men i...
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130,73 |
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The AIDS Crisis and the Modern Self: Biographical Self-Construction in the Awareness of Finitude
ISBN: 9780792363712 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In industrialized countries, HIV/AIDS is now increasingly perceived as a chronic condition. Yet initially, before combination therapy became available, this pandemic was widely associated with premature or even imminent death. Receiving the diagnosis typically led to a dramatic biographical disruption.
This highly original book turns this basic feature of life with HIV into the vantage point for a fascinating analysis of Western subjectivity. Combining a host of empirical observations with the debate on the modern self, the author argues that the self-construction of people with HIV... In industrialized countries, HIV/AIDS is now increasingly perceived as a chronic condition. Yet initially, before combination therapy became available...
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406,31 |
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Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence: Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis
ISBN: 9780800636418 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than twenty years into the global AIDS pandemic, the efforts of Christian congregations and denominations have been less than minimal. This book is aimed to awaken Christian compassion in the coming years to this fathomless tragedy. The worst health crisis in the world in 700 years, global HIV/AIDS epidemic is overwhelming in scale: 40 million people are infected worldwide (75% of them in Africa); 7000 people die daily; each day 1600 persons are infected. Some 26 million people have already died. "At this unprecedented "kairos moment in human history," says Messer, "God is calling the...
More than twenty years into the global AIDS pandemic, the efforts of Christian congregations and denominations have been less than minimal. This book ...
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93,77 |
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Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS
ISBN: 9780801881916 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the era of the Internet and Oprah, in which formerly taboo information is readily available or freely confided, secrecy and privacy have in many ways given way to an onslaught of confession. Yet for those who are HIV positive, decisions about disclosure of their diagnosis force them to confront intimate, fundamental, and rarely discussed questions about truth, lies, sex, and trust. Drawing from interviews with over seventy gay men and women, intravenous drug users, sex workers, bisexual men, and heterosexual men and women, the authors provide a detailed portrait of moral,... In the era of the Internet and Oprah, in which formerly taboo information is readily available or freely confided, secrecy and privacy have ... |
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128,11 |
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In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz
ISBN: 9780802136718 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few artists have captured the emotional, sexual, and political chaos of modern urban life as perceptively as David Wojnarowicz, whom Out magazine has called "an acute observer of the unmapped region surrounding his heart and one of the best writers of his generation." In journal entries from age seventeen until his AIDS-related death at thirty-seven, In the Shadow of the American Dream chronicles the life of a radical artist who unequivocally defied bigotry even as he became a target for the right wing. It tells the story of Wojnarowicz's creative birth, from publishing his first photographs...
Few artists have captured the emotional, sexual, and political chaos of modern urban life as perceptively as David Wojnarowicz, whom Out magazine has ...
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65,99 |
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