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HIV I: Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis: Clinical Applications
ISBN: 9780120329502 / Angielski / Twarda / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The cumulative death toll from AIDS has reached 16.3 million individuals, and more than 33 million persons are currently living with HIV-1. Although it is one of the most-widely studied viruses, many mysteries remain about this pathogen. In this comprehensive two-volume set, HIV-1: Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis, leading investigators in HIV research present a timely picture of the molecular mechanisms which guide HIV-1 expression and replication and provide the most current clinical strategies for combating this virus. Twenty-six teams of experts unravel structure-function...
The cumulative death toll from AIDS has reached 16.3 million individuals, and more than 33 million persons are currently living with HIV-1. Although i...
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926,24 zł |
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Aging with HIV : Psychological, Social, and Health Issues
ISBN: 9780125180511 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In 1998, approximately 30 million people worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS, about 5 million of whom became infected that year. The epidemic continues to expand, with an estimated doubling time of 10 years, making AIDS the leading infectious cause of death ahead of tuberculosis and malaria. Even in the U.S.A. where the death rate from AIDS is declining as a result of effective drug therapies, HIV infection rates continue to climb in several population groups. The prevalence of AIDS among people over the age of 50 is steadily increasing, and most older people are unprepared to address it for...
In 1998, approximately 30 million people worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS, about 5 million of whom became infected that year. The epidemic continue...
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363,20 zł |
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AIDS in the World II : Global Dimensions, Social Roots, and Responses: The Global AIDS Policy Coalition
ISBN: 9780195090970 / Angielski / Miękka / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. AIDS in the World, Vol. 1, published in 1992, was the first full analysis of mankind's global confrontation with this disease. The AIDS scene, however, has been changing so rapidly that the need for a second volume was felt much earlier than expected. In AIDS in the World II, the authors extend the international comparisons from 38 countries to the entire world, and show that the AIDS pandemic has become increasingly fragmented within the world population. They present data that takes the discussion beyond the current understanding of the vulnerability of nations and...
AIDS in the World, Vol. 1, published in 1992, was the first full analysis of mankind's global confrontation with this disease. The AIDS scene...
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313,76 zł |
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Dawning Answers : How the HIV/AIDS Epidemic has Helped to Strengthen Public Health
ISBN: 9780195147407 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Dawning Answers charts the legacy of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic to the theory and practice of public health. Richly detailed chapters describe how advances in techniques and startegies to monitor health events, develop public policy, set funding priorities, mobilize communities, support the adoption of safer behaviors, ensure access to needed prevention and treatment services, and involve affected populations in public health research, intervention, and evaluation, all owe a substantial debt to those who have adapted, redefined, and extended these techniques and strategies in...
Dawning Answers charts the legacy of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic to the theory and practice of public health. Richly detailed chapters descr...
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376,17 zł |
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AIDS Doctors : Voices from the Epidemic: An Oral History
ISBN: 9780195152395 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Today, AIDS has been indelibly etched in our consciousness. Yet it was less than twenty years ago that doctors confronted a sudden avalanche of strange, inexplicable, seemingly untreatable conditions that signaled the arrival of a devastating new disease. Bewildered, unprepared, and pushed to the limit of their diagnostic abilities, a select group of courageous physicians nevertheless persevered. This unique collective memoir tells their story.
Based on interviews with nearly eighty doctors whose lives and careers have centered on the AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s to the present,... Today, AIDS has been indelibly etched in our consciousness. Yet it was less than twenty years ago that doctors confronted a sudden avalanche of strang...
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245,39 zł |
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Shattered Dreams? : An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic
ISBN: 9780195307306 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Shattered Dreams? is an oral history of how physicians and nurses in South Africa struggled to contend with the world's most catastrophic AIDS epidemic. Based on more than 250 hours of extended interviews with almost 90 doctors and nurses, it seeks to capture the feelings of these health care providers and the challenges they faced.
Shattered Dreams? is an oral history of how physicians and nurses in South Africa struggled to contend with the world's most catastrophic AIDS epidemi...
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245,39 zł |
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Hidden in the Blood : A Personal Investigation of AIDS in the Yucatan
ISBN: 9780231101905 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Carter Wilson discovers the legacy of AIDS in a country as poor as Mexico. He provides a dramatic personal account of the resilient citizens of Merida, the capital city of the Yucatan and principal city of the Mayan lowlands.
Carter Wilson discovers the legacy of AIDS in a country as poor as Mexico. He provides a dramatic personal account of the resilient citizens of Merida...
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294,05 zł |
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AIDS and People with Severe Mental Illness: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals
ISBN: 9780300067576 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. While HIV spreads among people with severe mental illness for the same reasons it does in the general population, there are specific ways in which mental illness is associated with elevated HIV risk. Every mental health institution or program now has to deal with the consequences of increased HIV rates, but until now there has been no single book that could tell them how to do so. AIDS and People with Severe Mental Illness covers the entire range of information essential for those who deal with these patients: epidemiological, medical, psychological, legal, ethical, and policy issues...
While HIV spreads among people with severe mental illness for the same reasons it does in the general population, there are specific ways in which men...
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381,84 zł |
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And the Band Played on: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
ISBN: 9780312374631 / Angielski / Inna / 630 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Upon it's first publication twenty years ago, And The Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigative reporting. An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts' expose revealed why AIDS was allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80's while the most trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat. One of the few true modern classics, it changed and framed how AIDS was discussed in the following years. Now republished in a special 20th Anniversary edition, And the...
Upon it's first publication twenty years ago, And The Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigative reporting. An int...
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94,23 zł |
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The AmFAR AIDS Handbook : The Complete Guide to Understanding HIV and AIDS
ISBN: 9780393316360 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the leading foundation for AIDS research, a comprehensive guide to help readers understand the complexities of HIV/AIDS and provide the latest information on combination therapy. The AmFAR AIDS Handbook picks up where other books on AIDS leave off. It is the book you will turn to for a greater understanding of this disease, its causes and effects, and what new treatment options are being developed. How is HIV transmitted? When should antiviral treatment begin? Should treatment ever be stopped? How do protease inhibitors work? How does the disease differ in men, women, and children? This...
From the leading foundation for AIDS research, a comprehensive guide to help readers understand the complexities of HIV/AIDS and provide the latest in...
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102,38 zł |
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Shots in the Dark : The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine
ISBN: 9780393322255 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. When scientists proved in 1984 that HIV causes AIDS, a vaccine race spun into action. But the sprint to develop an AIDS vaccine now more closely resembles a crawl. Jon Cohen elucidates the forces that have hindered the search: unforeseen scientific obstacles, clashing personalities, the uncertain marketplace, haphazard political organization, and serious ethical dilemmas. Beyond a powerful critique, Cohen also offers specific recommendations for accelerating the effort.
When scientists proved in 1984 that HIV causes AIDS, a vaccine race spun into action. But the sprint to develop an AIDS vaccine now more closely resem...
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106,23 zł |
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HIV in South Africa : Talking about the big thing
ISBN: 9780415372091 / Angielski / Twarda / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Of approximately 42 million HIV positive people in the world, 29.4 million live in sub-Saharan Africa and another 4 million in South Africa. Despite its relatively powerful economy and infrastructure, South Africa has been dramatically affected by the HIV pandemic. Using narrative analysis of a three year interview study and textual analysis of political materials, HIV in South Africa examines the impact of HIV on people's everyday lives in the country. Examining the relationship between personal accounts of living with HIV and wider medical, political and religious discourses, the book... Of approximately 42 million HIV positive people in the world, 29.4 million live in sub-Saharan Africa and another 4 million in South Africa. Despit... |
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609,03 zł |
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HIV in South Africa : Talking about the big thing
ISBN: 9780415372107 / Angielski / Miękka / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Of approximately 42 million HIV positive people in the world, 29.4 million live in sub-Saharan Africa and another 4 million in South Africa. Despite its relatively powerful economy and infrastructure, South Africa has been dramatically affected by the HIV pandemic. Using narrative analysis of a three year interview study and textual analysis of political materials, HIV in South Africa examines the impact of HIV on people's everyday lives in the country. Examining the relationship between personal accounts of living with HIV and wider medical, political and religious discourses, the book... Of approximately 42 million HIV positive people in the world, 29.4 million live in sub-Saharan Africa and another 4 million in South Africa. Despit... |
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196,60 zł |
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International Politics of HIV/AIDS : Global Disease-Local Pain
ISBN: 9780415413831 / Angielski / Twarda / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This book examines the global governance of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, interrogating the role of this international system and global discourse on HIV/AIDS interventions. The geographical focus is Sub-Saharan Africa since the region has been at the forefront of these interventions. There is a need to understand the relationship between the international political environment and the impact of resulting policies on HIV/AIDS in the context of people's lives. Hakan Seckinelgin points out a certain disjuncture between this governance structures and the way people experience the disease in... This book examines the global governance of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, interrogating the role of this international system and global discourse on HIV/... |
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661,90 zł |
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The Way of Hope: Michio Kushi's Anti-AIDS Program
ISBN: 9780446514347 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Now! A macrobiotic, holistic regime, with no drugs or their inherent side-effects, that proves as effective as AZT in prolonging the lives of AIDS patients.
Now! A macrobiotic, holistic regime, with no drugs or their inherent side-effects, that proves as effective as AZT in prolonging the lives of AIDS pat...
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102,38 zł |
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AIDS Counselling : Institutional Interaction and Clinical Practice
ISBN: 9780521022880 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Conversations between AIDS counselors and their clients bring delicate and potentially threatening issues into play. In this study Anssi Perä kylä applies the principles of conversation analysis to his exploration of AIDS counseling, using data from video-recorded counseling sessions in a London teaching hospital, and analyzes the design and placement of questions in these situations. His conclusions provide a timely and illuminating insight into the management of a sensitive topic through various techniques of indirectness.
Conversations between AIDS counselors and their clients bring delicate and potentially threatening issues into play. In this study Anssi Perä kyl...
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314,51 zł |
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AIDS Counselling : Institutional Interaction and Clinical Practice
ISBN: 9780521454636 / Angielski / Twarda / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Conversations between AIDS counselors and their clients bring delicate and potentially threatening issues into play. In this study Anssi Perakyla applies the principles of conversation analysis to his exploration of AIDS counseling, using data from video-recorded counseling sessions in a London teaching hospital, and analyzes the design and placement of questions in these situations. His conclusions provide a timely and illuminating insight into the management of a sensitive topic through various techniques of indirectness.
Conversations between AIDS counselors and their clients bring delicate and potentially threatening issues into play. In this study Anssi Perakyla appl...
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714,82 zł |
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AIDS, Rhetoric, and Medical Knowledge
ISBN: 9780521837705 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Examining the formation of scientific knowledge about the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Alex Preda highlights the metaphors, narratives, and classifications which framed scientific hypotheses about the nature of the infectious agent and its transmission. Preda compares these arguments with those used in the scientific analysis of SARS. He demonstrates how scientific knowledge about epidemics is shaped by cultural narratives and categories of social thought through a detailed review of biomedical publications.
Examining the formation of scientific knowledge about the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Alex Preda highlights the metaphors, narratives, and classificat...
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353,08 zł |
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HIV and AIDS in Africa : Beyond Epidemiology
ISBN: 9780631223573 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology is a collection that seeks to further our understanding of AIDS by shifting the predominant understandings generated by biomedical and epidemiological research.
HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology is a collection that seeks to further our understanding of AIDS by shifting the predominant underst...
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203,90 zł |
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HIV Drug Book Revised
ISBN: 9780671014902 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Project Inform, the nation's leading community-based AIDS treatment information and advocacy organization, presents the first comprehensive, user-friendly guide to all the drugs most used by people with HIV/AIDS. This completely updated edition includes profiles of the newest and most recently approved drugs and laboratory tests, including protease inhibitors and viral load tests -- and in-depth discussions on how best to use these advances to create effective, long-term treatment strategies. Acclaimed for its accurate but nontechnical language, the handbook is easily accessible by way of an...
Project Inform, the nation's leading community-based AIDS treatment information and advocacy organization, presents the first comprehensive, user-frie...
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179,57 zł |
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