Sex, Gay Men and AIDS
ISBN: 9780750700962 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a major empirical study of sexual behaviour in the UK. It is based on the findings of project SIGMA - whch is the major British initiative in the AIDS field, funded by the Department of Health and the Medical Research Council. Using in-depth qualitative analysis, the authors have developed new theories of sexuality. They have collected detailed information from over 1000 men in high-risk categories and examined their behavioural changes in response to HIV/AIDS over a four year period 1987-1991. The book presents the latest research on knowledge of HIV, attitudes to AIDS and the...
This book is a major empirical study of sexual behaviour in the UK. It is based on the findings of project SIGMA - whch is the major British initiativ...
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250,69 zł |
Working with Families in the Era of Hiv/AIDS
ISBN: 9780761922162 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to encourage professionals to become involved in family-oriented services to prevent the spread of HIV and its consequence and to provide examples of strategies for mobilizing family resources in the prevention and adaptation to HIV and AIDS.
The purpose of this book is to encourage professionals to become involved in family-oriented services to prevent the spread of HIV and its consequence...
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619,17 zł |
Working with Families in the Era of Hiv/AIDS
ISBN: 9780761922179 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to encourage professionals to become involved in family-oriented services to prevent the spread of HIV and its consequence and to provide examples of strategies for mobilizing family resources in the prevention and adaptation to HIV and AIDS.
The purpose of this book is to encourage professionals to become involved in family-oriented services to prevent the spread of HIV and its consequence...
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388,91 zł |
The Origin, Persistence and Failings of Hiv/AIDS Theory
ISBN: 9780786430482 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thanks to enormous funding for educational programs, the whole world "knows" that HIV causes AIDS. But is what we know compatible with the facts? This book challenges the conventional wisdom on this issue. Collating and analyzing, for the first time, the results of more than two decades of HIV testing, it reveals that the common assumptions about HIV and AIDS are incompatible with the published data. Among the many topics explored are the failings of HIV testing, statistical evidence that HIV is neither sexually transmitted nor increasingly prevalent, and problems caused by the differing...
Thanks to enormous funding for educational programs, the whole world "knows" that HIV causes AIDS. But is what we know compatible with the facts? This...
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217,76 zł |
Nutrition and HIV: A New Model for Treatment
ISBN: 9780787939649 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Treating HIV with Nutrition
Nutrition and HIV addresses the issues of nutrition and HIV from the perspective of the patient as well as the physician. Everyone who is interested in the problems of--and solutions to--nutritional therapy in HIV owes it to themselves to read this book. --Paul A. Volberding, M.D., director, Center for AIDS Research, San Francisco This reference book offers a sound nutritional model for sustaining and improving quality of life for HIV positive men and women. It outlines an easy-to-follow program for the prevention and treatment of... Treating HIV with Nutrition
Nutrition and HIV addresses the issues of nutrition and HIV from the perspective of the patient as well as th... |
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172,32 zł |
Activism and Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis
ISBN: 9780789000040 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Activism and Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis shows readers how the advent of HIV-disease has brought into question the utility of certain forms of activism as they relate to understanding and fighting the social impacts of disease. This informative and powerful book is centrally concerned about the ways in which institutionally governed social constructions of HIV/AIDS affect policy and public images of the disease more so than activist efforts. It asserts that an accounting of the power institutional structures have over the dominant social constructions of HIV disease is fundamental to...
Activism and Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis shows readers how the advent of HIV-disease has brought into question the utility of certain forms of ...
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179,05 zł |
Nutritional Abnormalities in Infectious Diseases: Effects on Tuberculosis and AIDS
ISBN: 9780789000194 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Listed in the 1997 edition of Doody s Rating Service: A Buyer s Guide to the 250 Best Health Sciences Books Until recently, it had been presumed that chemotherapy was sufficient to control tuberculosis (TB). However, it has been estimated that this disease will claim more than 30 million lives in the coming decade. The emergence of multidrug resistant strains, the lack of patient adherence to therapy, and the resultant growing number of TB cases has made it clear that alternative approaches to fight this disease must be taken. Nutritional Abnormalities in Infectious Diseases:...
Listed in the 1997 edition of Doody s Rating Service: A Buyer s Guide to the 250 Best Health Sciences Books Until recently, it had been pres...
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143,23 zł |
Hiv/AIDS Prevention: Current Issues in Community Practice
ISBN: 9780789006943 / Angielski / Twarda / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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407,55 zł |
Transgender and HIV: Risks, Prevention, and Care
ISBN: 9780789012685 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deliver effective services to this growing population This volume presents the first collection of reports on the impact of HIV/AIDS on the transgender community worldwide. It includes a thorough description of the unique HIV risks of transgender people and exposes their largely neglected health and social service needs. This unique book also reports on the first generation of prevention interventions targeting this community, discusses guidelines for providing sex reassignment services to HIV-positive transsexuals, and encourages collaboration between communities at risk, researchers, and...
Deliver effective services to this growing population This volume presents the first collection of reports on the impact of HIV/AIDS on the transgend...
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240,46 zł |
Black Women's Risk for HIV : Rough Living
ISBN: 9780789031693 / Angielski / Twarda / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black Women's Risk for HIV: Rough Living is a valuable look into the structural and behavioral factors in high-risk environments--specifically inner-city neighborhoods like the "Rough" in Atlanta--that place black women in danger of HIV infection. Using black feminism to deconstruct the meaning and significance of race, class, and gender, this text gives a voice to a unique disenfranchised population and legitimizes their lives and experiences. This important ethnographic study focuses not only on the problems associated with the continued rise in HIV rates among African American women, but...
Black Women's Risk for HIV: Rough Living is a valuable look into the structural and behavioral factors in high-risk environments--specifically inner-c...
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250,69 zł |
Black Women's Risk for HIV: Rough Living
ISBN: 9780789031709 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An inside look at the devastating impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on poor African American women
Black Women's Risk for HIV: Rough Living is a valuable look into the structural and behavioral factors in high-risk environments--specifically inner-city neighborhoods like the "Rough" in Atlanta--that place black women in danger of HIV infection. Using black feminism to deconstruct the meaning and significance of race, class, and gender, this text gives a voice to a unique disenfranchised population and legitimizes their lives and experiences. This important ethnographic study... An inside look at the devastating impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on poor African American women
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163,70 zł |
Community Collaborative Partnerships: The Foundation for HIV Prevention Research Efforts
ISBN: 9780789032539 / Angielski / Twarda / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Find out how best to develop HIV prevention programs that work
Community Collaborative Partnerships: The Foundation for HIV Prevention Research Efforts is a must read for anyone interested in developing prevention programs within high-risk urban environments. Illustrative case studies, quality research, revealing personal stories, and helpful tables and figures provide valuable insights on innovative ways to partner in the prevention of the spread of HIV in youths. Leading experts in the field offer practical strategies to dissolve the distrust individuals in a community hold for... Find out how best to develop HIV prevention programs that work
Community Collaborative Partnerships: The Foundation for HIV Prevention Rese... |
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614,06 zł |
HIV: Issues with Mental Health and Illness
ISBN: 9780789034090 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. HIV: Issues with Mental Health and Illness is a comprehensive examination of the co-morbidity that exists between HIV/AIDS and mental illness. Internationally recognized experts in the field analyze the latest research on why HIV sufferers are at risk of developing mental illness and how people who suffer from mental illness risk contracting HIV through sexual behavior and substance abuse. This unique book focuses on clinical and diagnostic issues, the organization of service delivery systems, and community-based interventions.
HIV: Issues with Mental Health and Illness is a comprehensive examination of the co-morbidity that exists between HIV/AIDS and mental illness. Interna...
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665,24 zł |
Hiv : Issues with Mental Health and Illness
ISBN: 9780789034106 / Angielski / Miękka / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. HIV: Issues with Mental Health and Illness is a comprehensive examination of the co-morbidity that exists between HIV/AIDS and mental illness. Internationally recognized experts in the field analyze the latest research on why HIV sufferers are at risk of developing mental illness and how people who suffer from mental illness risk contracting HIV through sexual behavior and substance abuse. This unique book focuses on clinical and diagnostic issues, the organization of service delivery systems, and community-based interventions.
HIV: Issues with Mental Health and Illness is a comprehensive examination of the co-morbidity that exists between HIV/AIDS and mental illness. Interna...
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271,16 zł |
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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133,48 zł |
AIDS Pathogenesis
ISBN: 9780792361961 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus is characterized by the destruction of the host immune system as also reflected by a progressive loss of CD4-positive T-cells. This finally results in the host's incapacity to deal with opportunistic infections and the immune surveillance of tumors, a clinical status known as the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
The book AIDS Pathogenesis provides the reader with a complete overview of the clinical course of HIV-1 infection. It describes the clinical aspects of primary infection, the different clinical outcomes of HIV-1... Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus is characterized by the destruction of the host immune system as also reflected by a progressive loss ...
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586,33 zł |
Computational and Evolutionary Analysis of HIV Molecular Sequences
ISBN: 9780792379942 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Computational and Evolutionary Analysis of HIV Molecular Sequences is for all researchers interested in HIV research, even those who only have a nodding acquaintance with computational biology (or those who are familiar with some, but not all, aspects of the field). HIV research is unusual in that it brings together scientists from a wide range of disciplines: clinicians, pathologists, immunologists, epidemiologists, virologists, computational biologists, structural biologists, evolutionary biologists, statisticians and mathematicians. This book seeks to bridge the gap between these...
Computational and Evolutionary Analysis of HIV Molecular Sequences is for all researchers interested in HIV research, even those who only hav...
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586,33 zł |
Immunology of HIV Infection
ISBN: 9780792389620 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is now 10 years since the first AIDS cases were reported in the USA. In that relatively short period of time, study of the disease has moved from the level of early clinical description to exhaustive and extensive laboratory characterization of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the immune responses directed towards it and reasons for their failure. This volume provides contributions from clinical and basic scientists who are actively involved in research in a number of areas of current interest and controversy. Further progress in the clinical management of the HIV-infected patient...
It is now 10 years since the first AIDS cases were reported in the USA. In that relatively short period of time, study of the disease has moved from t...
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586,33 zł |
A Comparative Analysis of the Financing of HIV/AIDS Programmes : In Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe October 2003
ISBN: 9780796920508 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This social science research report compares the mechanisms for financing HIV/AIDS programs in Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe. The comparative analysis of the financial dimension of HIV/AIDS programs and interventions across the six countries includes a critique of their statistical differences.
This social science research report compares the mechanisms for financing HIV/AIDS programs in Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland,...
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91,30 zł |
Managing HIV in the Workplace : Learning from SMEs
ISBN: 9780796921611 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing an in-depth analysis of the opportunities and constraints faced by six small- and medium-sized enterprises in managing the burden of HIV/AIDS within their companies, this study focuses on the complexity of HIV risk dynamics, as well as the challenges of implementing effective HIV/AIDS intervention programs, and highlights achievements despite resource constraints. Through qualitative research techniques, the study reflects not only the views and opinions of management, but also the experiences of ordinary employees as participants in HIV/AIDS interventions.
Providing an in-depth analysis of the opportunities and constraints faced by six small- and medium-sized enterprises in managing the burden of HIV/AID...
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91,30 zł |