ilość książek w kategorii: 409
An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi
ISBN: 9780226825540 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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434,28 zł |
Living with HIV: Battling Discrimination, Stigma, and Denial
ISBN: 9798362633264 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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46,89 zł |
Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS
ISBN: 9781645022077 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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101,39 zł |
In Her Hands: Women's Fight against AIDS in the United States
ISBN: 9780520389052 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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434,28 zł |
In Her Hands: Women's Fight against AIDS in the United States
ISBN: 9780520389069 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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127,28 zł |
Love Is Greater than AIDS: A Memoir of Survival, Healing, and Hope
ISBN: 9781538186572 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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108,52 zł |
Post-AIDS Discourse in Health Communication: Sociocultural Interpretations
ISBN: 9781032077529 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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206,23 zł |
Evaluating HIV Patients: Impact of Energy-Dense Immuno-Enhancing Nutritional Supplement
ISBN: 9789358681604 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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113,78 zł |
We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love
ISBN: 9780143035992 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Wooten has pulled off something close to miraculous... and touched the face of HIV/AIDS with compassion and humanity. Alexandra Fuller, Chicago Tribune
"This is a book not to be missed." People "Amazing and tender... in this special book Wooten] brings home the tragedy of AIDS." Liz Smith, New York Post "Wooten rightly disregards journalistic distance and writes himself into the work, making it read like a contemplative literary memoir." Time Out New York ""Wooten has pulled off something close to miraculous... and touched the face of HIV/AIDS with compassion and humanity. Alexandra Fuller, Chi...
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97,52 zł |
The Social Dimensions of AIDS: Method and Theory
ISBN: 9780275921101 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of original papers on the nature of AIDS social research, this volume brings together anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and public health researchers to consider the methodological, empirical, and conceptual aspects of the problem. Unlike other studies, which focus on the medical and epidemiological aspects of AIDS, this study specifically focuses on the social aspects of the disease, the response of the community and medical profession, and the effects of the epidemic upon the gay subculture. Consideration is given to methodological shortcomings in the research on... A collection of original papers on the nature of AIDS social research, this volume brings together anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, an... |
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380,00 zł |
African American Women and Hiv/AIDS: Critical Responses
ISBN: 9780275971274 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. AIDS is the second-leading cause of death among African American women between the ages of 18 and 44. African American women constitute 63% of all cases of AIDS among women in the United States. This volume brings together the collective wisdom of scholars, researchers, and social work professionals dealing with these concerns. Focusing attention on the primary population of women impacted by AIDS, this book presents culturally sensitive responses that meet the specific needs of African American women. An historical and current overview of the alarming HIV infection rate among African... AIDS is the second-leading cause of death among African American women between the ages of 18 and 44. African American women constitute 63% of all ... |
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380,00 zł |
African American Women and Hiv/AIDS: Critical Responses
ISBN: 9780275971281 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. AIDS is the second-leading cause of death among African American women between the ages of 18 and 44. African American women constitute 63% of all cases of AIDS among women in the United States. This volume brings together the collective wisdom of scholars, researchers, and social work professionals dealing with these concerns. Focusing attention on the primary population of women impacted by AIDS, this book presents culturally sensitive responses that meet the specific needs of African American women. An historical and current overview of the alarming HIV infection rate among African... AIDS is the second-leading cause of death among African American women between the ages of 18 and 44. African American women constitute 63% of all ... |
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184,52 zł |
Aids, Sexual Behavior, and Intravenous Drug Use
ISBN: 9780309039765 / Angielski / Twarda / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The AIDS virus is spread by human behaviors enacted in a variety of social situations. In order to prevent further infection, we need to know more about these behaviors. This volume explores what is known about the number of people infected, risk-associated behaviors, facilitation of behavioral change, and barriers to more effective prevention efforts. The AIDS virus is spread by human behaviors enacted in a variety of social situations. In order to prevent further infection, we need to know more ... |
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396,28 zł |
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
ISBN: 9780312420130 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is--just a disease. Cancer, she argues, is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment and, it is highly... In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time... |
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73,14 zł |
The AIDS Crisis: A Documentary History
ISBN: 9780313287152 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. AIDS has grown in just two decades from a rare disease to one that has already killed millions of men, women, and children worldwide. To help high school and college students understand the history and current status of AIDS as a social, political, psychological, public health, and cultural phenomenon, this documentary history provides 228 short and highly readable selections from primary and secondary sources of information about AIDS and HIV. Its scope covers the entire history of the epidemic from its beginnings to early 1997. The documents, many of which cannot easily be found... AIDS has grown in just two decades from a rare disease to one that has already killed millions of men, women, and children worldwide. To help high ... |
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331,14 zł |
In the Midst of Winter: Counseling Families, Couples, and Individuals with AIDS Infection (Revised)
ISBN: 9780393702040 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The title of this book is taken from Albert Camus, who wrote, "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." Indeed, the AIDS epidemic has hit like a cold blizzard in the gay community and in inner cities afflicted by high levels of drug abuse. In the Midst of Winter chronicles the brave struggles of families, couples, and individuals caught in that storm and speaks to their strengths, as well as to those of their therapists, even in the bleakest of circumstances. Powerful and practical, immediate and inspiring, it shows the way through the storm to the...
The title of this book is taken from Albert Camus, who wrote, "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." I...
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105,45 zł |
Youth, AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases
ISBN: 9780415106337 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What has been the impact of AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases on the lives of young people? Youth, AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases provides a comprehensive overview of research and policy in this increasingly important area.
The book describes the world-wide incidence and prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases among adolescents and examines how their sexual behaviour has changed as a result of the threat of AIDS. It also looks at young people's knowledge and attitudes about their own sexual health, as well as the usefulness of models in predicting those at risk.... What has been the impact of AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases on the lives of young people? Youth, AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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216,54 zł |
Sexual Cultures in East Asia: The Social Construction of Sexuality and Sexual Risk in a Time of AIDS
ISBN: 9780415405928 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using case-studies from East and Southeast Asia, this book examines sexuality and AIDS-related sexual risk in the context of Asian cultures. It offers a complementary perspective, documented with sociological and anthropological data, to historical studies and looks at commercial sex work, kinship systems, matrimonial strategies, gender, power relations, and the relevance of cultural constructs such as Confucianism and Taoism for the analysis of sexual cultures in Asia.
Using case-studies from East and Southeast Asia, this book examines sexuality and AIDS-related sexual risk in the context of Asian cultures. It offers...
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195,92 zł |
Impure Science: Aids, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledgevolume 7
ISBN: 9780520214453 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to a degree never before seen in medical history. Steven Epstein's astute and readable investigation focuses on the critical question of "how certainty is constructed or deconstructed," leading us through the views of medical researchers, activists, policy makers, and others to discover how knowledge about AIDS emerges out of what he calls "credibility struggles." Epstein shows the extent to which AIDS research has been a social and political...
In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to ...
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199,44 zł |
Learning from HIV and AIDS
ISBN: 9780521004701 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study brings together health-care professionals and scholars from a variety of disciplines who seek to understand, and prevent, the transmission of HIV. The biological and social factors concerned with the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS has resulted in dedicated research from each of the disciplines and provided unique insights into the disease. By assembling their insights in one multidisciplinary volume, this book provides a more complete picture of the complex disease, and demonstrates why preventing the spread of HIV will require interdisciplinary collaboration.
This study brings together health-care professionals and scholars from a variety of disciplines who seek to understand, and prevent, the transmission ...
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410,97 zł |