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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Biography of Resistance The Epic Battle Between
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA useful, engaging opus — New York Times Book Review Antibiotic resistance is a global problem—a disease present in Karachi one day may arrive in Reno, Nev., the next—yet the same connectivity that has spread resistance has eased collaboration across borders. Mr. Zaman’s optimism...is welcome, though not always easy to share. Still, his sense of urgency is irresistible. — Wall Street Journal "A vivid portrayal of our fight against an opponent that has been around for more than 3 billion years. Zaman, a professor of biomedical engineering and international health, portrays a conflict—between humans and harmful strains of bacteria—that has played out in plagues and epidemics over millennia." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “I was born under the antibiotic umbrella and took effective antibiotics for granted. Yet we still battle pneumonia, which still kills 800,000 children per year, due to a lack of access. Meanwhile, there is excess use of antibiotics, in humans and animals, causing the problem of drug-resistant infections. This book tells you the story of the people who set up the antibiotic umbrella and the challenge to keep it up—for all of us, together, as one humanity. Because no wall will ever protect us against drug-resistant infections.” — Stefan Swartling Peterson, chief of health, UNICEF “If you read one book this year, please make it this one. A breathtaking, inspiring, and very personal account of one of the greatest challenges of our time—drug-resistant infections—an issue that will undermine the whole of modern medicine unless we act, and we act now. This book is about what has made modern medicine possible—the ability to control and treat infections. This book fills one with hope that science can overcome the challenge, politicians can act, policies can work, and drug-resistant infections do not need to be the end of modern medicine. It is enthralling, engaging, and beautifully written.” — Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome Trust “Biography of Resistance is a sweeping and engaging history of the tango humanity dances with bacteria—which both make human life possible and have the capacity to end it. Our efforts in the past hundred years to gain the upper hand have led to remarkable successes—but now may be backfiring as antimicrobial resistance looms as the biggest public health challenge of our time. Dr. Zaman’s story is timely and urgent.” — Kathleen Sebelius, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The First Shots
Book SynopsisThe full inside story of the high-stakes, global race for the lifesaving vaccine to end the pandemic Heroic science. Chaotic politics. Billionaire entrepreneurs. Award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings the defining story of our times alive through compulsively readable, first-time reporting on the players leading the fight against a vicious virus. The First Shots, soon to be the subject of an HBO limited series with superstar director and producer Adam McKay (Succession, Vice, The Big Short), draws on exclusive, high-level access to weave together the intense vaccine-race conflicts among hard-driving, heroic scientists and the epic rivalries among Washington power players that shaped 18 months of fear, resolve, and triumph. From infectious disease expert Michael Callahan, an American doctor secretly on the ground in Wuhan in January 2020 to gauge the terrifying ravages of Disease X; to Robert (Dr. Bob
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Oxford University Press Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa
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University of Chicago Press In Changing Times
Book SynopsisThe HIV/AIDS epidemic has been a major catastrophe for gay communities. In less that two decades, the disease has profoundly altered their lives. This volume discusses the ways HIV/AIDS has changed collective and individual identities, and how our perceptions of the disease have been affected.Table of ContentsPreface by John H. Gagnon Introduction by John H. Gagnon and Peter M. Nardi 1: Mobilizing around AIDS: Sites of Struggle in the Formation of AIDS Subjects Barry D. Adam 2: Censorship and Identity in the Age of AIDS Nan D. Hunter 3: Friends, Lovers, and Families: The Impact of AIDS on Gay and Lesbian Relationships Peter M. Nardi 4: Spiritual Emergencies and Psycho-Spiritual Treatment Strategies among Gay/Homosexual Latinos with HIV Disease Lourdes Arguelles, Anne Rivero. 5: Elegy for the Valley of Kings: AIDS and the Leather Community in San Francisco, 1981-1996 Gayle S. Rubin 6: Owning an Epidemic: The Impact of AIDS on Small-City Lesbian and Gay Communities Beth E. Schneider 7: From Feminism to Polymorphous Activism: Lesbians in AIDS Organizations Nancy E. Stoller 8: The HIV Epidemic and Public Attitudes toward Lesbians and Gay Men Gregory M. Herek 9: Latino Gay Men and Psycho-Cultural Barriers to AIDS Prevention Rafael Miguel Diaz 10: Intergenerational Relations and AIDs in the Formation of Gay Culture in the United States Gilbert Herdt 11: AIDS-Related Risks and Same-Sex Behaviors among African American Men John L. Peterson Notes on Contributors Index
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The University of Chicago Press Best Laid Plans Cultural Entropy and the
Book SynopsisWe see it all the time: organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive, expansive media campaigns. Designers painstakingly craft clear, resonant, and culturally sensitive messaging that will motivate people to buy a product, support a cause, vote for a candidate, or take active steps to improve their health. But once these campaigns leave the controlled environments of focus groups, advertising agencies, and stakeholder meetings to circulate, the public interprets and distorts the campaigns in ways their designers never intended or dreamed. In Best Laid Plans, Terence E. McDonnell explains why these attempts at mass persuasion often fail so badly. McDonnell argues that these well-designed campaigns are undergoing cultural entropy: the process through which the intended meanings and uses of cultural objects fracture into alternative meanings, new practices, failed interactions, and blatant disregard. Using AIDS media campaigns in Accra, Ghana
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University of Chicago Press Operation Fly Trap L. A. Gangs Drugs and the Law
Book SynopsisIn 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The operation would soon be considered an enormous success. The author questions both the success of this operation and the methods used to conduct it.Trade Review"I thoroughly enjoyed reading Operation Fly Trap. The dramatis personae are treated as human beings, and the reader gets a chance to look at them in the flesh: loving, betrayed, strung out, anxious, and more. The book marries the real conditions of poverty, racism, and war with the day-to-day lives of victims and offenders. This is first-class ethnography." -John Hagedorn, University of Illinois at Chicago"
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University of Chicago Press Operation Fly Trap
Book SynopsisIn 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The operation would soon be considered an enormous success. The author questions both the success of this operation and the methods used to conduct it.Trade Review"I thoroughly enjoyed reading Operation Fly Trap. The dramatis personae are treated as human beings, and the reader gets a chance to look at them in the flesh: loving, betrayed, strung out, anxious, and more. The book marries the real conditions of poverty, racism, and war with the day-to-day lives of victims and offenders. This is first-class ethnography." -John Hagedorn, University of Illinois at Chicago"
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The University of Chicago Press Children of Alcoholics A Critical Appraisal of
Book SynopsisThis study offers a comprehensive, critical look at what is known and not known about children of alcoholics, and also constructs a model for assessing existing theory and introducing new methodological rigor into this field.
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University of Chicago Press The Smoking Book
Book SynopsisThe Smoking Book is built on the foundation of two questions: how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean? Lesley Stern muses on these questions through intersecting stories and essays.
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University of Washington Press A Family History of Illness
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University of Wisconsin Press In the Province of the Gods
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Kenny Fries writes out of the pure hot emergency of a mortal being trying to keep himself alive. So much is at stake here—health, affection, culture, trauma, language—but its greatest surprise is what thrives in the midst of suffering. A beautiful book.”—Paul Lisicky, author of The Narrow Door“In this subtle page turner, Fries helps reinvent the travel-as-pilgrimage narrative. He neither exoticizes nor shies away from the potential pitfalls of a Western mind traveling abroad; instead he demonstrates how, through an all-too-rare open heart and a true poet’s eye, bridges can be built and understanding deepened, one sincere action at a time.”—Marie Mutsuki Mockett, author of Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye“Deeply moving and exquisitely written about many things—cultural and physical difference, sexuality, love, loss, mortality, and the ephemeral nature of beauty and art—and a love letter to Japan.”— Mira Bartók, author of The Memory Palace“Not your typical AIDS memoir. . . . It’s also a book about living with a life-long disability, living in a unique and vastly different culture than one’s own. . . . Fries offers compelling insight into Japanese culture. Perhaps from a lifetime spent on the outside looking in, he shines in his understanding of and his perspective on the human condition.” — John Francis Leonard, A&U“An achingly beautiful and intricately-woven personal narrative…. Fries’ prose shines with a honed and brightly polished clarity—each phrase hangs heavy with meaning, reduced only to what is necessary, a world in of itself. . . . to read it is to experience what true literary achievement really means.”—Julia Bouwsma, Connotation Press“Absorbing, moving and intensely human. . . . In the unsettled and often angry world of disability politics, Kenny Fries' memoir enters centre stage, projecting an oasis of calm and insightful enquiry.”—WordgatheringTable of Contents Prologue: In the Province of the Gods I. Floating One: Genkan Two: Fortune Three: Barrier Free Four: Foreign Affairs Five: Mono no Aware Six: Physical Facts Seven: A Mountain of Skulls and Candlelit Graves Eight: An Infected Throat and a Healing Tree Nine: Borrowing the Hills II. Away One: Before Two: After III. World One: Survivals Two: A Pair of One-Winged Birds Three: History Being Created, or What the Leech Child Says Four: Rare and Uncommon Beings Five: Bubbling Water Six: My Japan Seven: Before and After Eight: Positive Effects Nine: New Stories in an Ancient Land Epilogue: Procession Acknowledgments Suggested Readings
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Hachette Books We Are Electric
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Back Bay Books Raising Lazarus Hope Justice and the Future of
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Random House USA Inc Asylums
Book SynopsisAsylums is an analysis of life in total institutions -- closed worlds such as prisons, army training camps, naval vessels, boarding schools, monastaries, nursing homes and mental hospitals -- where the inmates are regimented, surrounded by other inmates, and unable to leave the premises. It describes what these institutions make of the inmate, and what he or she can make of life inside them. Special attention is focused on mental hospitals, drawing on the author's year of field work at St. Elizabeth's in Washington, D.C., one of America's most well-known institutions. It is the thesis of this book that the most important factor in forming a mental-hospital patient is the institution, not the illness, and that the patient's reactions and adjustments are those of inmates in other types of institutions as well. The first essay is a general portrait of life in a total instituion. The other three consider special aspects of this existence: the initial eff
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WW Norton & Co Saving Gotham
Book SynopsisThe inside story of the most audacious public health campaign of the twenty-first century.Trade Review"In recent years, New York City adopted a series of bold initiatives to reduce smoking, to combat childhood obesity, and otherwise to promote public health. Tom Farley was there, and he tells the gripping inside story. Think that a public heath department can’t save lives? Think again!" -- Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University, and coauthor of Nudge"For twelve years, Mike Bloomberg was mayor of New York City, and the two Toms (Frieden and Farley) ran the health department. The brash, fearless trio took on Big Tobacco and salt- and sugar-pushers to make New York the healthiest city in America, with a life expectancy three years longer than the nation’s. This great book tells you how they did it." -- Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and author of I Heard The Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks"There is a reason why people in New York City live longer than average Americans, and this book tells you why. Tom Farley has written a fast-paced chronicle of those exciting years and recounts how a mayor who didn’t have to worry about raising funds for his campaigns told his health commissioners to think big and save lives." -- Richard Besser, MD, chief health and medical editor, ABC News"As mayor of NYC, Michael Bloomberg showed the world that an enlightened leader can tremendously improve the health and well-being of his constituents. In this riveting book, Dr. Farley uses his experiences as a member of Bloomberg’s public health team to describe the challenges and opposition faced at every step." -- Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, chair, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health"In Saving Gotham the former New York City health commissioner provides the inside story on how the city led the nation by dramatically reducing smoking rates, eliminating artificial trans fats from restaurants, getting calorie information on restaurant menus, and reducing soda consumption and obesity. Those efforts are saving thousands of lives every year." -- Michael F. Jacobson, PhD, executive director, Center for Science in the Public Interest
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WW Norton & Co The Wisdom of Whores Bureaucrats Brothels and the
Book Synopsis“[A] rollicking, eye-opening, hilarious account of the underbelly of international AIDS research.”—Carlin Romano, Philadelphia InquirerTrade Review"The book will make you reconsider everything you thought you knew about HIV/AIDS." -- Katie Hunter - Foreign Policy"This is an utterly fascinating book. . . . Elizabeth Pisani writes with enormous verve and acerbity, her prose alive with anecdote and metaphor. . . . The Wisdom of Whores is a great read." -- Stephen Lewis, The Globe and Mail
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INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US Grass Roots The Rise and Fall and Rise of
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Handbook of HIV and Social Work
Book SynopsisPraise for Handbook of HIV and Social Work Cynthia Cannon Poindexter has given us a remarkable edited volume that contains much information on HIV that every professional social worker needs to know in order to practice competently in today''s complex world.From the Foreword by Vincent J. Lynch, MSW, PhD, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work This comprehensive handbook assembles a group of social work scholars and practitioners to participate in, guide, and address many of the unresolved challenges characterizing the HIV debates. This handbook is a valuable and timely addition to the literature.King Davis, MSW, PhD, The Robert Lee Sutherland Chair in Mental Health and Social Policy, The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work This handbook is an outstanding resource for the social work professional working to ensure equal access to care, treatment, and resources for all persons living with and/or affected by HIV.Evelyn P. Tomaszewski, MSW, Table of ContentsForeword (Vincent J. Lynch). Preface. About the Editor. About the Contributors. Part One: HIV Basics and Social Work Principles. Chapter 1 HIV History, Illness, Transmission, and Treatment (Ryan M. Kull). Chapter 2 Underlying Principles of Helping in the HIV Field (Hugo Kamya). Chapter 3 Cultural Competence and HIV (Manoj Paradasani, Claudia Lucia Moreno, and Nicholas Robertson Forge). Chapter 4 The Human Rights Framework Applied to HIV Services and Policy (Cynthia Cannon Poindexter). Part Two: Social Work Practice. Chapter 5 HIV-Related Case Management (Douglas M. Brooks). Chapter 6 HIV-Related Crisis Intervention and Counseling (Michael P. Melendez). Chapter 7 HIV Social Work Roles, Tasks, and Challenges in Health Care Settings (Brian Giddens). Chapter 8 HIV-Related Group Work and Family Support (Patricia A. Stewart and Valerie Dixson-Anderson). Chapter 9 Administration of HIV Services: Program Development, Management, and Fund Development (Dana B. Marlowe). Chapter 10 HIV-Related Community Organizing and Grassroots Advocacy (Larry M. Gant). Chapter 11 HIV-Related Political and Legislative Intervention (Gary Bailey). Chapter 12 HIV Prevention Innovations and Challenges (Peter A. Newman). Part Three: Specific Vulnerable Populations. Chapter 13 Women and HIV in the U.S.: From Invisible to Self-Determined (Sally Mason). Chapter 14 HIV Prevention and Services for Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men: Now is Still the Time (David J. Brennan and Winston Husbands). Chapter 15 The Impact of HIV on Children and Adolescents (Lori Wiener and Susan Taylor-Brown). Chapter 16 HIV-Infected and HIV-Affected Midlife and Older Persons (Charles A. Emlet). Chapter 17 HIV and Black and African-American Communities in the Twenty-first Century (Darrell P. Wheeler, Bernadette R. Hadden, Michael Lewis, Laurens G. Van Sluytman, and Tyrone M. Parchment). Chapter 18 Latinos and HIV: A Framework to Develop Evidence-Based Strategies (Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Alida Bouris, and Susan M. Gallego). Chapter 19 HIV-Affected Caregivers (Helen Land). Chapter 20 Afterward: Looking Back, Looking Forward in HIV Social Work (Cynthia Cannon Poindexter and Nathan L. Linsk). Author Index. Subject Index.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press War on Autism
Book SynopsisAutism is widely understood in contemporary times as nothing more than a biomedical disorder in need of treatment and/or cure. War on Autism disrupts this singularity by examining autism as a historically specific and power-laden cultural phenomenon that has much to teach about the social organization of a neoliberal western modernity.Trade ReviewA comprehensive treatise on the social, political, and discursive constitution of the conceptual object called ‘autism’ which considers a broad range of arguments, artifacts, and events and does so in a series of lively and provocative challenges to accepted understandings of this relatively recent phenomenon.” — Shelley Tremain, author of Foucault and the Government of Disability “In many respects, autism is the condition du jour, and cultural fascination has long prevented both lay publics and scholars from engaging with the host of characters—or figures—that govern its very construction. McGuire’s multi-pronged, critical analysis of modern-day autism advocacy will profoundly impact the field of Disability Studies and uproot (unfortunately) dearly-held clinical and educational paradigms that dominate contemporary discourse on autism.” — Melanie Yergeau, University of Michigan
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