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Virus Hunting: AIDS, Cancer, and the Human Retrovirus: A Story of Scientific Discovery
ISBN: 9780465098156 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The renowned AIDS researcher Robert Gallo tells his story of scientific breakthrough in a riveting portrait of the people, the politics, and the pace of modern scientific discovery.
The renowned AIDS researcher Robert Gallo tells his story of scientific breakthrough in a riveting portrait of the people, the politics, and the pace ...
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138,51 zł |
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Life Lessons: Stories of hope, love and laughter in the face of AIDS
ISBN: 9780595308255 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "Life Lessons" is about finding meaning in every life experience, be it positive or negative. Each moment has a lesson if we are open to the possibility of growth.
"Life Lessons" takes you on a spiritual journey that will render it impossible for you to regard life in the same way. Maris Hodge Wright openly shares stories from her wealth of counseling experience that have impacted her life. They are stories of love, betrayal, forgiveness, and joy.
"Life Lessons" is about finding meaning in every life experience, be it positive or negative. Each moment has a lesson if we are open to the possibili...
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59,91 zł |
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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
ISBN: 9780679752929 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) By the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone, a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears.
Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had once seemed an urban problem had arrived in the town to stay. Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases. Dr. Verghese became by necessity the local AIDS... By the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone, a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears. |
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81,60 zł |
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Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival
ISBN: 9780679773153 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "Sullivan offers a] profound, often beautiful appreciation of friendship. . . . He can] fascinate us with the range and depth of his mind."--San Francisco Chronicle
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "One of the great pleasures of this book lies in watching Sullivan's mind at work . . . his essays] are filled with a passion and heat that most cultural criticism lacks." --Katie Roiphe, The Washington Post When former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan publicly revealed his HIV positive status in 1996, he intended "to be among the first... "Sullivan offers a] profound, often beautiful appreciation of friendship. . . . He can] fascinate us with the range and depth of his mind."--San ...
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73,01 zł |
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AIDS: The Ultimate Challenge
ISBN: 9780684839400 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) AIDS
"None of us is so unique as to be exempt from the human condition." As the numbers of reported AIDS cases continue to climb, and the disease continues to take more and more lives, those who have to deal with the complexities of this problem continue to ask: "How do we care for these terminally ill?" Using letters from patients, questions and answers between patient and doctor, and other compassionate tools, Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the world's foremost expert on death and dying, shows us how to comfort the seriously ill and help AIDS patients through the critical... AIDS
"None of us is so unique as to be exempt from the human condition." As the numbers of reported AIDS cases continue to climb, and... |
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98,56 zł |
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Ethics and AIDS: Compassion and Justice in Global Crisis
ISBN: 9780742550124 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) HIV/AIDS continues to devastate the lives of individuals and families, communities and countries. A growing numbness about HIV/AIDS, however, infects many people. Many fail to recognize that the AIDS epidemic is still getting worse, now spreading rapidly in the world's most populous countries. To help raise and renew consciousness about this threat to the world, Ethics and AIDS: Compassion and Justice in Global Crisis summarizes the basics of the AIDS epidemic and presents key themes insights based on the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. This ethical perspective is the result of decades of...
HIV/AIDS continues to devastate the lives of individuals and families, communities and countries. A growing numbness about HIV/AIDS, however, infects ...
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433,00 zł |
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Ethics and AIDS: Compassion and Justice in Global Crisis
ISBN: 9780742550131 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) HIV/AIDS continues to devastate the lives of individuals and families, communities and countries. A growing numbness about HIV/AIDS, however, infects many people. Many fail to recognize that the AIDS epidemic is still getting worse, now spreading rapidly in the world's most populous countries. To help raise and renew consciousness about this threat to the world, Ethics and AIDS: Compassion and Justice in Global Crisis summarizes the basics of the AIDS epidemic and presents key themes insights based on the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. This ethical perspective is the result of decades of...
HIV/AIDS continues to devastate the lives of individuals and families, communities and countries. A growing numbness about HIV/AIDS, however, infects ...
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137,03 zł |
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AIDS in Africa: How the Poor Are Dying
ISBN: 9780745631592 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book explores the socio-economic context of Africas vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and assesses the politics of domestic and global response. It charts the power relations driving Africas HIV/AIDS epidemic, frustrating the possibility of alleviation and recovery as well as working to relegate the continent to a bleak and vulnerable future.
This book explores the socio-economic context of Africas vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and assesses the politics of domestic and global response. It chart...
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98,61 zł |
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Aids: Activism and Alliances
ISBN: 9780748405763 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) From the start of the AIDS epidemic there have been calls for greater solidarity between affected groups and communities, and public health services. This can be seen both in the move towards healthy alliances in health service work, and in the demands of AIDS activists worldwide. This text brings together specially selected papers addressing these and related themes given at the Eighth Conference on Social Aspects of AIDS held in London in late 1995. Among the issues examined are profession and policy; the heightened vulnerability of groups such as women and younger gay men; and issues of...
From the start of the AIDS epidemic there have been calls for greater solidarity between affected groups and communities, and public health services. ...
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275,92 zł |
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AIDS: The Perfect Disease
ISBN: 9780759668096 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The author reveals the fantastic benefits of the AIDS epidemic and traces the source of the disease to the government's war on cancer--specifically, the development of immunosuppressive viruses and the documented testing of monkey cancer viruses in human subjects.
The author reveals the fantastic benefits of the AIDS epidemic and traces the source of the disease to the government's war on cancer--specifically, t...
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58,52 zł |
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Youths Living with HIV: Self-Evident Truths
ISBN: 9780789001764 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this enlightening book, you ll explore the life struggles and adaptations leading up to and following HIV infection in young Americans. The cases presented in Youths Living with HIV envisage a variety of experiences of youths living with HIV and AIDS, including individuals of different races, of each gender, and of different sexual preferences. This discussion of the private "troubles" and experiences of youths helps you understand and identify dependent and larger public issues surrounding HIV infection and AIDS, and demonstrates the need for comprehensive and targeted intervention and...
In this enlightening book, you ll explore the life struggles and adaptations leading up to and following HIV infection in young Americans. The cases p...
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676,90 zł |
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AIDS and Development in Africa: A Social Science Perspective
ISBN: 9780789006387 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) AIDS and Development in Africa: A Social Science Perspective is the first book-length treatment of both the impact of AIDS in Africa and an assessment of intervention strategies in varying cultural situations. Developed from revised selected papers from the nineteenth Southern African Universities Social Science Conference, AIDS and Development in Africa will be of interest to counselors, medical and development practitioners, Africanists, and AIDS researchers. From this book, you will find wide analytical coverage of the issues and country case studies related to the contributory factors and...
AIDS and Development in Africa: A Social Science Perspective is the first book-length treatment of both the impact of AIDS in Africa and an assessment...
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755,01 zł |
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Hiv/AIDS Prevention: Current Issues in Community Practice
ISBN: 9780789006943 / Angielski / Twarda / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) HIV/AIDS Prevention: Current Issues in Community Practice will help researchers and psychologists explore specific methods of improving HIV/AIDS prevention research. This book discusses the University-CBO Collaborative Partnership (UUCP) Model, evaluation activities for AIDS service organizations, and studies concerning college women and condom use and psychological distress among African-American and Latino Males impacted by HIV. Containing tables and case studies, HIV/AIDS Prevention will help you understand the context and structures of different communities to develop relevant and...
HIV/AIDS Prevention: Current Issues in Community Practice will help researchers and psychologists explore specific methods of improving HIV/AIDS preve...
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432,13 zł |
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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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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624,83 zł |
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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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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166,57 zł |
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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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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192,60 zł |
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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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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937,25 zł |
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The AIDS Notebooks
ISBN: 9780791403341 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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135,82 zł |
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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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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102,81 zł |
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Killing Us Quietly: Native Americans and HIV/AIDS
ISBN: 9780803296244 / Angielski / Miękka / 147 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Over the past five centuries, waves of diseases have ravaged and sometimes annihilated Native American communities. The latest of these silent killers is HIV/AIDS. The first book to detail the devastating impact of the disease on Native Americans, Killing Us Quietly fully and minutely examines the epidemic and its social and cultural consequences among three groups in three geographical areas. Through a series of personal narratives, the book also vividly conveys the terrible individual and emotional toll the disease is taking on Native lives. Exploring Native urban, reservation, and rural...
Over the past five centuries, waves of diseases have ravaged and sometimes annihilated Native American communities. The latest of these silent killers...
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67,64 zł |
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