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PublicAffairs,U.S. To End a Plague: America's Fight to Defeat AIDS
Book Synopsis"Randy Shilts and Laurie Garrett told the story of the HIV/AIDS epidemic through the late 1980s and the early 1990s, respectively. Now journalist-historian-activist Emily Bass tells the story of US engagement in HIV/AIDS control in sub-Saharan Africa. There is far to go on the path, but Bass tells us how far we've come." -Sten H. Vermund, professor and dean, Yale School of Public HealthWith his 2003 announcement of a program known as PEPFAR, George W. Bush launched an astonishingly successful American war against a global pandemic. PEPFAR played a key role in slashing HIV cases and AIDS deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, leading to the brink of epidemic control. Resilient in the face of flatlined funding and political headwinds, PEPFAR is America's singular example of how to fight long-term plague-and win.To End a Plague is not merely the definitive history of this extraordinary program; it traces the lives of the activists who first impelled President Bush to take action, and later sought to prevent AIDS deaths at the whims of American politics. Moving from raucous street protests to the marbled halls of Washington and the clinics and homes where Ugandan people living with HIV fight to survive, it reveals an America that was once capable of real and meaningful change-and illuminates imperatives for future pandemic wars. Exhaustively researched and vividly written, this is the true story of an American moonshot.
£22.50
Taylor & Francis Inc Encyclopedia of AIDS: A Social, Political,
Book SynopsisThe Encyclopedia of AIDS covers all major aspects of the first 15 years of the AIDS epidemic, including the breakthroughs in treatment announced at the International AIDS Conference in July 1996. The encyclopedia provides extensive coverage of major topics in eight areas: basic science and epidemiology; transmission and prevention; pathology and treatment; impacted populations; policy and law; politics and activism; culture and society; and the global epidemic. With more than 300 entries written by 175 specialists and illustrated with more than 100 photographs and charts, the Encyclopedia of AIDS is an essential reference work for students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, professionals in a wide variety of medical, service, and care fields, academics, researchers, journalists, and general readers.Trade Review"This volume is unique because of its multidisciplinary approach to HIV/AIDS. Well organized, well researched, and well written, it is also without competition... The Encyclopedia of AIDS is perfect for reference (academic, public, and high-school) collections. It is also recommended for personal libraries." -- Booklist/RBB"A useful reference volume for undergraduate students." -- Choice"Highly recommended for public, school, academic, and health science libraries." -- E-Streams"There is no other one-volume reference work on AIDS that covers the amount of information contained in this work. I strongly recommend that all public and academic libraries, as well as high school libraries, purchase this book." -- Reference & User Services QuarterlyTable of ContentsEditor’s Note and Guide to Usage; Editors and Contributors; Alphabetical List of Entries; Resource Guide; The Aids Epidemic: An Overview (with thematic listings of encyclopedia entries); Encyclopedia Entries; List of Commonly Used Terms and Abbreviations; Notes on Editors and Contributors; Index
£308.75
Pinter & Martin Ltd. HIV and Breastfeeding: The untold story
Book SynopsisIn the early 1980s it was discovered that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, could be passed through a mother’s milk to her baby. Almost overnight in the industrialised countries, and later in the African countries most ravaged by HIV, breastfeeding became an endangered practice. But in the rush to reduce transmission of HIV, everything we already knew about breastfeeding’s life-saving effects was overlooked, with devastating consequences for mothers and babies. In HIV and Breastfeeding – the untold story, former IBCLC Pamela Morrison, an acknowledged authority on HIV and breastfeeding, reveals how women in the world’s most poverty-stricken areas were persuaded to abandon breastfeeding as part of a short-sighted and deadly policy that led to an humanitarian disaster. The dilemma that breastfeeding, an act of nurturing which confers food, comfort and love, could be at once life-saving yet lethal, has been called ‘the ultimate paradox’. This critical account reveals how vital breastfeeding is, even in the most difficult of circumstances, and examines the lessons that can be learned from the mistakes of the past – which is particularly relevant as we deal with the consequences for mothers and babies of another global pandemic, Covid-19. With detailed information for HIV-positive mothers and their caregivers, and success stories from mothers themselves, this book is essential reading for anyone involved in protecting and supporting breastfeeding, or with a need for evidence-based information about breastfeeding and HIV.
£21.25
Oxford University Press Before HIV
Book SynopsisThis book addresses two of the most important questions in modern African history: the causes of rapid population growth, and the origins of the HIV pandemic. It examines three societies on the Uganda-Tanzania border whose distinctive histories shed new light on both of these phenomena. This was the region where HIV in Africa first became a mass rural epidemic, and also where HIV infection rates first began to decline significantly.Before HIV argues that only by analysing the long history of changes in sexual behaviour and attitudes can the shape of Africa''s regional epidemics be fully understood. It traces the emergence of the sexual culture which permitted HIV to spread so quickly during the late 1970s and 1980s back to the middle decades of the twentieth century, a period when new patterns of socialization and sexual networking became established. The case studies examined in this book also provide new insights into the relationship between economic and social development and trendTrade ReviewDoyle shows that it is only by analysing the history of changes in sexual behaviour and attitudes that the shape of Africa's regional HIV/AIDS epidemics can be fully understood. Doyle's book is an impressive attempt to tell a detailed story of changing sexual culture * Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala, The Lancet *Without question Before HIV is an extremely erudite book full of rich empirical detail woven together with care to construct original and generally convincing challenges to some of the prevailing wisdom on demographic change and the differential epidemiology of HIV. * Marc Epprecht, American Historical Review *a wealth of testimony, gathered through years of painstaking archival and oral historical scholarship ... The result is a rich exploration of sexuality in three twentieth-century societies in the Lake Victoria region ... This is a hugely complex and detailed work. * Sarah Walters, Population Studies: A Journal of Demography *a well-researched, solidly documented study ... Highly recommended. * B.M. du Toit, CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Sexuality and fertility in the pre-colonial period ; 2. Disease and mortality, 1860-1925 ; 3. Early colonial sexuality and fertility ; 4. Marriage and sexuality in Buganda, 1925-69 ; 5. Prostitution in Buhaya, 1925-1969 ; 6. Ankole: marriage and the ethnicity of sex, 1925-69 ; 7. Fertility in Ankole, Buganda and Buhaya, 1925-6 ; 8. Disease and death, 1925-196 ; 9. Sexuality, mortality, disease and fertility in the 1970S ; Conclusion And Epilogue: AIDS and demographic change in historical context
£90.25
The University of Chicago Press The Boundaries of Blackness AIDS and the
Book SynopsisExplores the social, political and cultural impact of AIDS on the African-American community. Informed by interviews with activists, ministers, public officials and people with AIDS, the book brings to light how the epidemic fractured, rather than united, the black community.
£28.00
Columbia University Press The AIDS Conspiracy
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this important book, Nattrass...deftly examines widespread misconceptions about the origin, transmission, and health effects of AIDS. Publishers Weekly A remarkably well argued case against unscientific approaches to AIDS and a brilliant defense of evidence-based medicine. Library Journal (starred review) The AIDS Conspiracy is essential reading for anyone who is curious about why some people will not accept scientific facts about the nature, origin and lethality of HIV. -- Robin A. Weiss Nature a highly accessible, impeccably referenced, scholarly work, which should be essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the role of conspiracy theories in the social and political history of the AIDS epidemic. -- Neil Bennet Lancet Nattrass lucidly examines the social and scientific stresses that confound the public when confronted with pseudoscientifc propaganda in life-threatening scenarios. Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Conspiratorial Move Against HIV Science and Its Consequences 2. AIDS Origin Conspiracy Theories in the United States and South Africa 3. Who Believes AIDS Conspiracy Theories and Why Leadership Matters 4. Science 5. Science 6. Hero Scientists 7. Defending the Imprimatur of Science: Duesberg and the Medical Hypotheses Saga 8. The Conspiratorial Move and the Struggle for Evidence-based Medicine Notes References Index
£25.20
Indiana University Press South African Women Living with HIV
Book SynopsisAs women take control of their treatment, they help to determine effective routes to tending the spread of the disease.Trade Review[The authors] conclude, principally, that we cannot design effective interventions against the virus, the stigma, and the social determinants of women's specific vulnerabilities to HIV without careful attention to gender. I believe they make the point convincingly, with a richness of detail and sensitivity to nuance and emotional lives that commonly escapes biomedical discourse. I would certainly recommend the book as a resource for people entering the field. * International Journal of African Historical Studies *[T]he book is a much-needed contribution to research on the social construction of illness, gendered inequality and global gender injustice, and the lives of people living with HIV. * International Social Science Review *The developing theme of this text offers Africanists a solid platform to think critically about global politics, social class, racism, and gender injustice and their impact on the spread of HIV infection in marginalized populations south of the Sahara. This book will appeal to scholars and students of psychology, public health, public policy, and African studies. * African Studies Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements1. Women Living with HIV 2. An Introduction to South Africa with a Focus on the Cape Colored Community3. Setting the Stage for Exploring a Support Group for HIV Positive Women in a Coloured Community in Cape Town 4. Marginalizing the Marginalized Through Multiple Stigmas 5. Disclosure for Better or Worse 6. Staking a Claim as Normal Through Work and Relationships with Men 7. Care Work 8. Care Work and Violent Men 9. Women's Bodies 10. Lessons for the World ReferencesReferencesIndex
£49.30
Indiana University Press South African Women Living with HIV
Book SynopsisAs women take control of their treatment, they help to determine effective routes to tending the spread of the disease.Trade Review[The authors] conclude, principally, that we cannot design effective interventions against the virus, the stigma, and the social determinants of women's specific vulnerabilities to HIV without careful attention to gender. I believe they make the point convincingly, with a richness of detail and sensitivity to nuance and emotional lives that commonly escapes biomedical discourse. I would certainly recommend the book as a resource for people entering the field. * International Journal of African Historical Studies *[T]he book is a much-needed contribution to research on the social construction of illness, gendered inequality and global gender injustice, and the lives of people living with HIV. * International Social Science Review *The developing theme of this text offers Africanists a solid platform to think critically about global politics, social class, racism, and gender injustice and their impact on the spread of HIV infection in marginalized populations south of the Sahara. This book will appeal to scholars and students of psychology, public health, public policy, and African studies. * African Studies Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements1. Women Living with HIV 2. An Introduction to South Africa with a Focus on the Cape Colored Community3. Setting the Stage for Exploring a Support Group for HIV Positive Women in a Coloured Community in Cape Town 4. Marginalizing the Marginalized Through Multiple Stigmas 5. Disclosure for Better or Worse 6. Staking a Claim as Normal Through Work and Relationships with Men 7. Care Work 8. Care Work and Violent Men 9. Women's Bodies 10. Lessons for the World ReferencesReferencesIndex
£17.99
University of Washington Press Love Your Asian Body
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Wat does an excellent job of conveying these emotional and inspirational stories of activism... This book is an inspiring work that deserves to be read as it is an integral piece towards understanding the queer Asian American struggle for sexual liberation and health equity." * International Examiner *"Love Your Asian Body is a clarion call to understand one’s body not merely as a site for biotechnological intervention and individualized consumption but also as the source for envisioning social connectivities and political collectivities anew" * H-Net *
£110.48
University of Washington Press Love Your Asian Body
Book SynopsisWinner of the Outstanding Achievement in History Award for 2023, presented by the Association for Asian American StudiesDefying the AIDS epidemic, Asian American activists sparked a sex-affirming movementThe AIDS crisis reshaped life in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s and radicalized a new generation of queer Asian Americans with a broad vision of health equity and sexual freedom. Even amid the fear and grief, Asian American AIDS activists created an infrastructure of care that centered the most stigmatized and provided diverse immigrant communities with the health resources and information they needed. Without a formal blueprint, these young organizers often had to be creative and agitational, and together they reclaimed the pleasure in sex and fostered inclusivity, regardless of HIV status. A community memoir, Love Your Asian Body connects the deeply personal with the uncompromisingly political in telling the stories of more than thirty Asian American AIDS activists. In those eaTrade Review"Wat does an excellent job of conveying these emotional and inspirational stories of activism... This book is an inspiring work that deserves to be read as it is an integral piece towards understanding the queer Asian American struggle for sexual liberation and health equity." * International Examiner *"Love Your Asian Body is a clarion call to understand one’s body not merely as a site for biotechnological intervention and individualized consumption but also as the source for envisioning social connectivities and political collectivities anew" * H-Net *
£29.66
University of California Press All I Eat Is Medicine
Book SynopsisAll I Eat Is Medicine charts the lives of individuals and the operation of institutions in the thick of the AIDS epidemic in Mozambique during the global scale-up of treatment for HIV/AIDS at the turn of the twenty-first century. Even as the AIDS treatment scale-up saved lives, it perpetuated the exploitation and exclusion that was implicated in the propagation of the epidemic in the first place. This book calls attention to the global social commitments and responsibilities that a truly therapeutic global health requires.Trade Review"Ippolytos Kalofonos argues for global public health systems to confront the underlying causes of inequities instead of only providing medicine to the ill. In doing so, he explains that hunger, disease, and poverty are interlinked." * FoodTank *"All I Eat is Medicine is a grounded account showing that humanitarianism aid is a double-edged sword." * World Medical & Health Policy *
£64.00
University of California Press All I Eat Is Medicine
Book SynopsisAll I Eat Is Medicine charts the lives of individuals and the operation of institutions in the thick of the AIDS epidemic in Mozambique during the global scale-up of treatment for HIV/AIDS at the turn of the twenty-first century. Even as the AIDS treatment scale-up saved lives, it perpetuated the exploitation and exclusion that was implicated in the propagation of the epidemic in the first place. This book calls attention to the global social commitments and responsibilities that a truly therapeutic global health requires.Trade Review"Ippolytos Kalofonos argues for global public health systems to confront the underlying causes of inequities instead of only providing medicine to the ill. In doing so, he explains that hunger, disease, and poverty are interlinked." * FoodTank *"All I Eat is Medicine is a grounded account showing that humanitarianism aid is a double-edged sword." * World Medical & Health Policy *
£22.50
University of California Press In Her Hands
Book SynopsisIn Her Hands examines the various strategies women have utilized to fight for recognition as individuals vulnerable to and living with HIV/AIDS across multiple settings since the 1980s. Taking a new chronological and thematic approach to the study of the US epidemic, it explores five arenas of women's AIDS activism: transmission and recognition, reproductive justice, safer sex campaigns for queer women, the carceral state, and HIV prevention and treatment. In so doing, it moves the historical understanding of women's experiences of AIDS beyond their exclusion from the initial medical response and the role women played as the supporters of gay men. Asking how and on what terms women succeeded in securing state support, In Her Hands argues that women protesting the neglect of their health-care needs always risked encountering punitive intervention on behalf of the symbolic needs of fetuses and children as well as wider society deemed to need protecting from them. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. AIDS Is a Disaster, Women Die Faster 2. Testing Women 3. Women’s Fight for Safer Sex 4. Murder by Proxy 5. The Fight to End AIDS Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press In Her Hands
Book SynopsisIn Her Hands examines the various strategies women have utilized to fight for recognition as individuals vulnerable to and living with HIV/AIDS across multiple settings since the 1980s. Taking a new chronological and thematic approach to the study of the US epidemic, it explores five arenas of women's AIDS activism: transmission and recognition, reproductive justice, safer sex campaigns for queer women, the carceral state, and HIV prevention and treatment. In so doing, it moves the historical understanding of women's experiences of AIDS beyond their exclusion from the initial medical response and the role women played as the supporters of gay men. Asking how and on what terms women succeeded in securing state support, In Her Hands argues that women protesting the neglect of their health-care needs always risked encountering punitive intervention on behalf of the symbolic needs of fetuses and children as well as wider society deemed to need protecting from them. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. AIDS Is a Disaster, Women Die Faster 2. Testing Women 3. Women’s Fight for Safer Sex 4. Murder by Proxy 5. The Fight to End AIDS Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies A Line Drawn in the Sand
Book SynopsisKanki captures the determination of some African nations—including Botswana, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tanzania—to provide lifesaving antiretroviral therapies to their citizens. By emphasizing the dramatic results investments in AIDS treatments in Africa can bring, the book provides lessons to nations about scaling up their own treatment responses.
£23.36
Harvard University Press Saturday Is for Funerals
Book SynopsisIn the year 2000 the World Health Organization estimated that 85 percent of fifteen-year-olds in Botswana would eventually die of AIDS. This title tells the true story of lives ravaged by AIDS - of orphans, bereaved parents, and widows; and, of families who devote most Saturdays to the burial of relatives and friends.Trade ReviewThis is a remarkable account of the human effect of a pandemic, written by two people with an intimate knowledge of Botswana and its struggle to deal with AIDS. I recommend this book most warmly for its humanity and insight. -- Alexander McCall SmithThis extraordinary book brings to life the utterly unique stories of people in Botswana; yet the fact is that struggle, suffering and redemption are also universal stories with which we can all identify. The partnership of Dow and Essex, storyteller and scientist, results in a precious alchemy: a book that is engrossing, transforming and an important addition to the canon of the literature of HIV. -- Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone and My Own CountryThis is the AIDS book to read—first, because of its novel approach of describing true and very moving stories of the Botswana experience, coupled with lucid and relevant scientific explanations fitting for each of the stories, and second, because of the experience and caliber of its authors. Saturday Is For Funerals is at once highly moving, while providing unforgettable lessons from the greatest pandemic in medical history. Unity Dow knows her people and their tragic stories, and as we would expect from a highly regarded novelist, displays these stories with grace and beauty. Coauthor Professor Max Essex has as much or more public health scientific experience and more insights into HIV/AIDS than anyone I know in the world. This book would be valuable not only for people impacted by HIV, but also for politicians, educators, students, and anyone who wants an education on mankind's greatest 'plague.' -- Robert C. Gallo, M.D., Director, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of MedicineThis wonderful book is an inspiration to anyone who wants to learn more about the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its impact on Africa. The authors have collaborated on a well-written tome that is highly informative yet easy to read and digest. This book will have to be considered for a Pulitzer Prize and other suitable recognition. -- Mark A. Wainberg, President Emeritus, International AIDS SocietyUnity Dow and Max Essex have crafted an extraordinarily effective synergy of science and societal journalism. Saturday Is For Funerals explores the fragility and resilience of human spirit through poignant personal narratives around courtships, young love, and family tradition, centered in the Botswana 'hot zone' of the most devastating epidemic in recorded history. In conversational and gripping prose Saturday Is For Funerals engages as it informs, standing alongside Randy Shilts (And the Band Played On) and Abraham Verghese (My Own Country) as a heartfelt chronicle of the turbulent times that AIDS has engendered for global society, for science, and for amazing African peoples. -- Stephen J. O'Brien, AIDS researcher, author of Tears of the Cheetah: And Other Tales from the Genetic FrontierThe HIV/AIDS epidemic in Botswana is explored with sensitivity and scientific rigor in this heartening book...This richly informative book dispels much of the mystery still surrounding HIV/AIDS, revealing how life goes on for those infected. Readers overwhelmed by (and even numbed to) the images of desolation that accompany coverage of the epidemic will find a realistic but optimistic assessment of a society successfully tackling the problem and a model for other afflicted nations. * Publishers Weekly *The narratives provide a human touch and convincingly illustrate the tremendous impact of AIDS on women, children, infants, friends, family, and culture. While Botswana was hard-hit by the AIDS epidemic, it has provided a successful model for other countries by taking a proactive approach to dealing with the disease. -- Tina Neville * Library Journal *A decade ago, the AIDS epidemic in the southern African country had gotten so bad that leaders feared its people were in danger of extinction; the World Health Organization estimated that 85 percent of 15 year olds would eventually die of the disease. Today, Botswana is the pride of Africa. The country's remarkable journey is detailed in Saturday Is for Funerals, a new book by renowned AIDS activist Unity Dow and researcher Max Essex. Weaving together personal anecdotes and medical history, the authors reveal how a combination of proactive government intervention, education, research, and foreign aid have achieved the near impossible...Bringing Saturday Is for Funerals to life--and distinguishing it from other books about AIDS in Africa--are its first-hand, often heart-wrenching stories of the epidemic's victims...[Dow] shares evocative stories of marriages torn apart by the disease, and saved through drug therapy, of tribal leaders encouraging circumcision to reduce infection, and of AIDS orphans. -- Danielle Friedman * Daily Beast *Unity Dow, a judge of the Interim Independent Constitutional Dispute Resolution Court of Kenya, and Max Essex, a Harvard professor of health sciences, have worked at the Botswana-Harvard Partnership to control, contain, and curtail the HIV/AIDS epidemic that has devastated Botswana. In this informative book, they present the many difficulties they face--medical, cultural, psychological, and financial. -- Barbara Fisher * Boston Globe *The epidemic of HIV and AIDS marching across Africa is threatening to crush entire countries under its weight. Saturday Is for Funerals tells the story of how one country, Botswana, is stemming the epidemic with bold political leadership, a strategic and scientific approach, and more than a little grit. -- Priya Shetty * New Scientist *The book is compelling because it tells us the real stories of people living with HIV/Aids and the devastating effects it has on families. There are stories of deadly sexual betrayal and bitterness, but also resilience, caring and kindness...This hook is then used to engage the reader and explain the science behind the disease in a generally accessible way. It is a work of both literature and science and works brilliantly. -- Pádraig Carmody * Irish Times *A compelling look at the toll of AIDS in Africa and some hopeful developments. -- Vanessa Bush * Booklist *Tragic and heartwrenching stories of victims, coupled with scientific explanations, are effectively woven into chapters on mother-to-child transmission, fear of diagnosis, AIDS in children, highly active antiretroviral therapy, drug resistance and toxicities, stigma, and orphans. The book comes at a critical time as news of HIV/AIDS "donor fatigue" makes headlines, and funding to battle AIDS in Africa is shrinking. This is very important reading for politicians, educators, students, and those seeking an education on humankind's greatest plague. -- P. Wermager * Choice *Dow and Essex bring their distinct and complementary knowledge of HIV infection in southern Africa into a book that effectively depicts both the personal and the scientific facets of the Botswana AIDS epidemic...The science is competently explained in terms that a lay person could understand, and the combination works well, making this book a good introduction to the key facts about HIV/AIDS as well as a moving depiction of the individual tragedies this disease can inflict...This book would be worthwhile reading for people who want to learn more about the HIV epidemic but would never pick up a textbook or scientific article...In my view, this book should be compulsory reading for policy makers and leaders throughout Africa, who often appear to be unaccountably remote from the suffering of ordinary people in their countries. -- Sarah Rowland-Jones * Nature Medicine *Unity Dow and Max Essex illuminate the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa by reporting on its consequences for the lives of those living in a single country, Botswana. Dow is a human rights lawyer and judge. Essex is an AIDS scientist at Harvard University. They have deployed their complementary experiences to examine multiple aspects of AIDS, dividing each chapter in half. Dow describes the personal stories of those affected by AIDS. She creates play scripts of conversation to situate the issue at hand--AIDS among children, access to medicines, fear and stigma, diagnosis--in a context that illustrates the intimacy and tragedy of the epidemic. Essex follows up with a scientific explanation of the preceding drama, together with his own reflections abpout what is being done to prevent such an episode from happening again. It is an effective strategy, drawing the reader into the particular culture of AIDS in Botswana, while showing what the global medical research enterprise into HIV can deliver for people who live in often excruciating poverty. -- Richard Horton * Times Literary Supplement *Table of Contents* Preface * Introduction *1. A Family of Funerals: The Epidemic *2. I Know You Still Love Me: Sexual Transmission *3. Masego and Katlego: Mother-to-Child Transmission *4. Mandla Gets Tested: Diagnosis of HIV Infection *5. The Death of Mma Monica: AIDS Disease in Adults and Availability of Treatment *6. Naledi and Her Nephew Shima: AIDS in Children *7. It Is the Will of God: HIV and Tuberculosis *8. Walking Skeletons and Hesitant Hugs: Toxicities and Resistance to Drugs Used to Treat HIV/AIDS *9. The Page Is Turning Red: Blood Transfusion as a Risk for HIV Infection *10. A Tribal Tradition: Male Circumcision to Prevent HIV Infection *11. A Matter of Commitment: Development of an HIV Vaccine *12. Ancestral Control: Evil Spirits and HIV as the Cause of AIDS *13. He Died in China: Fear and Stigma *14. Opelo's Rebellion: Issues of Adolescents and Women *15. Desperation for Pono: Orphans of HIV/AIDS *16. Government Action Makes a Difference: A Nation Responds * Glossary * Further Reading * Index
£24.26
John Wiley & Sons Inc Prisons and AIDS
Book SynopsisA Growing Health Crisis ?An illuminating discussion of the complex problems of HIV/AIDS within the correctional setting, including its impact on the families and communities of those incarcerated.--Mervyn F. Silverman, M.D., MPH, former director of health, San Francisco, former president, American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) The first book to offer critical information on the proliferation of HIV and AIDS among prison populations, this is a much-needed resource for the design and implementation of education and prevention programs within correctional facilities.Trade Review?Drs. Braithwaite, Hammett and Mayberry clearly paint the picture of what can happen in a society when it politicizes a major health issue and allows young people to perish for lack of knowledge. . . . We must decide if we want to build bigger, better incubators for crime, tuberculosis and HIV to release in society or if we want to develop healthy educated citizens with hope.? --M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D., former United States Surgeon General ?Required reading for elected officials, corrections administrators, policy makers and anyone interested in understanding that it is within our grasp to make major strides in our fight against the spread of HIV infection.? --Edward A. Harrison, president, National Commission of Correctional Health Care ?An illuminating discussion of the complex problems of HIV/AIDS within the correctional setting, including the impact on the families and communities of those incarcerated." --Mervyn F. Silverman, M.D. MPH, former director of health, San Francisco, former president, American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) ?The significance of the findings and the policy options, make this book fundamental reading for anyone interested in the implications for public health.? --Caswell A. Evans, Jr. DDS, MPH, immediate-past president, American Public Health Association "There is a great deal of useful information in this book that should be understood by all of those in criminal justice and correctional rehabilitation. A recommAnded book for all medical and academic libraries as well as state correctional institutions." --???????? "This timely, well-written, comprehensively documented, and compellingly argued book provides the template for action." --Nancy Neveloff Dubler, LL.B., Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, New England Journal of MedicineTable of ContentsForeword, 1. Inmates, HIV, and AIDS: An Overview 2. AIDS and Ethnic Minority Inmates 3. An Analysis of Current Educational and Prevention Efforts 4. Prevention and Juvenile OffAnders 5. Policy Response to a Public Health Opportunity 6. A Report from the Frontline: Four Case Studies 7. Prison Personnel: Gatekeepers to Education and Prevention 8. Legal and Legislative Issues 9. Worldwide Policies and Practices 10. The Public Health Challenge Afterword
£46.76
Johns Hopkins University Press The Psychiatry of AIDS A Guide to Diagnosis and
Book SynopsisThe cases are rich and engaging, and convey to the reader the intense disorder that can affect the lives of patients.Trade ReviewA wonderful addition to not only the HIV treatment and management literature but also to psychiatry and primary care as a model of dealing with co-morbid chronic mental and medical illness. Drs. Treisman and Angelino have a refreshing and forward-looking view of psychiatry and the importance of its contribution to the overall care of patients. -- John Claro Onate, BS, MD Doody's Book Review Service A passionate and thought-provoking book. -- George Harrison, M.D. Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling This text is a valuable clinical guide for skillfully diagnosing HIV/AIDS patients with co-occurring psychiatric disorders and conveys a healthy and productive approach to treatment. Whether you are simply seeking more information about the treatment of HIV/AIDS patients or want to enhance the treatment of your current HIV/AIDS patients, this dynamic text offers great benefit and hope. -- Michael Copenhaver Addiction 2005 This book should be in every physician's library, since it is essential for clinicians to be knowledgable about this contemporary plague that will affect all of us either directly or indirectly... Both a basic primer and a superb reference for all psychiatrists and mental health professionals. -- Thomas N. Wise, M.D. Psychosomatics 2005 This is a gem of a book providing meaningful insights into the working of clinicians in a difficult area of general hospital psychiatry as well as serving as a textbook of AIDS psychiatry. -- Gopinath Ranjith International Review of Psychiatry 2005 Upbeat and optimistic, yet realistic and deeply human... This book is well worth reading... Informative, energizing, and inspiring. -- Marie-Josee Brouillette Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 2005 This is an important book, and it should be read by primary care physicians and psychiatrists alike. -- James J. Strain Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2006Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceQuotes From the ClinicChapter 1. Why AIDS Psychiatry?Case: Complicated Major DepressionChapter 2. HIV and Major DepressionCase: AIDS DementiaChapter 3. Other Psychiatric Diseases in the HIV Clinic Case: PsychosisChapter 4. Personality in the HIV ClinicCase: Personality Disorder and Chronic PainChapter 5. Substance Abuse and HIVCase: Substance Abuse and DepressionChapter 6. Sexual Problems and HIVCase: A CoupleChapter 7. Life Story Problems in the HIV Clinic Chapter 8. Special Problems: Hepatitis C and AdherenceChapter 9. How to Fight AIDSNotesIndex
£36.90
Johns Hopkins University Press The Psychiatry of AIDS
Book SynopsisThe cases are rich and engaging, and convey to the reader the intense disorder that can affect the lives of patients.Trade ReviewA wonderful addition to not only the HIV treatment and management literature but also to psychiatry and primary care as a model of dealing with co-morbid chronic mental and medical illness. Drs. Treisman and Angelino have a refreshing and forward-looking view of psychiatry and the importance of its contribution to the overall care of patients. -- John Claro Onate, BS, MD Doody's Book Review Service A passionate and thought-provoking book. -- George Harrison, M.D. Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling This text is a valuable clinical guide for skillfully diagnosing HIV/AIDS patients with co-occurring psychiatric disorders and conveys a healthy and productive approach to treatment. Whether you are simply seeking more information about the treatment of HIV/AIDS patients or want to enhance the treatment of your current HIV/AIDS patients, this dynamic text offers great benefit and hope. -- Michael Copenhaver Addiction 2005 This book should be in every physician's library, since it is essential for clinicians to be knowledgable about this contemporary plague that will affect all of us either directly or indirectly... Both a basic primer and a superb reference for all psychiatrists and mental health professionals. -- Thomas N. Wise, M.D. Psychosomatics 2005 This is a gem of a book providing meaningful insights into the working of clinicians in a difficult area of general hospital psychiatry as well as serving as a textbook of AIDS psychiatry. -- Gopinath Ranjith International Review of Psychiatry 2005 Upbeat and optimistic, yet realistic and deeply human... This book is well worth reading... Informative, energizing, and inspiring. -- Marie-Josee Brouillette Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 2005 This is an important book, and it should be read by primary care physicians and psychiatrists alike. -- James J. Strain Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2006Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceQuotes From the ClinicChapter 1. Why AIDS Psychiatry?Case: Complicated Major DepressionChapter 2. HIV and Major DepressionCase: AIDS DementiaChapter 3. Other Psychiatric Diseases in the HIV Clinic Case: PsychosisChapter 4. Personality in the HIV ClinicCase: Personality Disorder and Chronic PainChapter 5. Substance Abuse and HIVCase: Substance Abuse and DepressionChapter 6. Sexual Problems and HIVCase: A CoupleChapter 7. Life Story Problems in the HIV Clinic Chapter 8. Special Problems: Hepatitis C and AdherenceChapter 9. How to Fight AIDSNotesIndex
£21.60
Johns Hopkins University Press Mortal Secrets Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS
Book SynopsisAddressing broad debates about the nature of secrecy, morality, and silence, this book explores public policy questions in the light of the nuanced, private decisions that are shaping the course of an epidemic and have broader indications for all.Trade ReviewAn engaging consideration of the competing and sometime contradictory values that influence disclosure decisions in the lives of HIV-positive adults... [and] a stimulating and deeply satisfying discussion of the tensions inherent in disclosure stories. -- Robert Kertzner, M.D. American Journal of Psychiatry An in-depth look at the motivations, beliefs, and practices of those who must decide to get tested and if positive, whether or not to disclose, and when... Mortal Secrets delivers a powerful message using the voices of those most affected. -- Lisa K. Waldner, Ph.D. Journal of the American Medical Association Nonjudgmental... Readers may find themselves with newly gained compassion and understanding for the dilemma of when and how to disclose HIV status. -- Marla J.Gold, MD Annals of Internal Medicine This is an interesting book that social workers need to read so as to understand their clients concerns. A recommended book for all academic libraries. AIDS Book Review Journal Klitzman and Bayer provide an engaging consideration of the competing and sometimes contradictory values that influence disclosure decisions in the lives of HIV-positive adults. Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling 2004 It is an aim that succeeds to an extraordinary degree... So well thought-out is this study, and so well presented are the accounts of the participants, that I put the book down with a real-and rare-sense that my understanding had grown and my thinking about the ethics of HIV-in particular the responsibilities of those infected-had shifted... The examples given here put such bald statements into a new context, and make the social and cultural factors that shape the pandemic seem vivid and emotionally real. Such vividness serves powerfully to enhance understanding. -- Tamsin Wilton Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 2004 This is a very interesting and thought-provoking book, which utilizes, but also moves beyond, the interview data in order to address broader debates around complex issues of sexuality and morality. -- Elaine Denny New Genetics and Society 2004 A useful resource for both clinicians and laypersons, and I recommend it as a highly accessible and expertly written book. International Review of Psychiatry 2005 Mortal Secrets is a book for anyone desiring to move forward in the fight against the illness, not the people. -- Erica Prigg Health Communication 2008Table of ContentsContents:Introduction Secrets, Lies, and Private Life1. Getting Tested Uncovering the Truth 2. Sexual Partners Sex, Love, and Disclosure 3. Secrets and "Secret Secrets" | Disclosure in Families 4. Disclosure in Other Worlds Friends, Co-Workers, and Going Public 5. Dangerous Acts 6. Making Moral JudgmentsConclusion Secrets in Public Life
£24.22
Rutgers University Press Fault Lines of Care Gender HIV and Global Health
Book SynopsisHeckert provides a detailed examination of the effects of global health and governmental policy decisions on the everyday lives of people living with HIV in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She focuses on the gendered dynamics that play a role in the development and implementation of HIV care programs and shows how decisions made from above impact what happens on the ground. Trade Review“Fault Lines of Care is a remarkable book of the type many of us strive for: a finely grained, moving ethnography that articulates the nature of the broad interactions among individual, community, state-level, and global dynamics in the domain of international HIV/AIDS care. Heckert is a lucid, evocative writer and frankly, I found the book hard to put down.” -- Carole H. Browner * coauthor of Neurogenetic Diagnoses, the Power of Hope, and the Limits of Today’s Medicine *“Carina Heckert’s evocative and wrenching ethnography, Fault Lines of Care, conveys the frustrating and at times deadly entanglements of global health agendas with the intimate lived experiences of people living with HIV/ AIDS in resource poor communities in Bolivia. Heckert invites readers on an emotionally-charged journey through her interlocutors’ intimate and social experiences of seeking care for HIV/AIDS and ultimately their struggles for survival. This ethnographically rich rendering is an important contribution to our understanding of how people’s experiences of chronic disease interact with the biopolitical contours of inequality and poverty, in Bolivia and globally.” -- Nia Parson * author of Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile *"Chronicle of Higher Education Weekly Book List," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"As a case study in global health strategy, [Bolivia] is a useful example because of the often unexpected ways in which local politics, societal structures, and culture interact to undermine efforts to combat the HIV epidemic." * The Lancet *"Heckert writes in an engaging and accessible style and clearly explains her theoretical approach to understanding her ethnographic data. She nicely balances her discussion of the historical, social, and political context of HIV care with case studies of HIV-positive people doing their best to navigate the healthcare system and make decisions about when and how to access care." * American Journal of Human Biology *"Comprehensive and impressively written." * The Latin Americanist *"Fault Lines of Care offers a thoughtful examination of an HIV epidemic....This book offers an excellent resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in medical anthropology and health sciences. It poses important questions for future researchers to consider, including why our stubborn reliance on metrics and disease-specific approaches to global health care persist." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of Contents1. Fault Lines 2. Decolonizing Bolivia 3. When Care is a “Systematic Route of Torture” 4. Aiding Women 5. Synergistic Silences 6. Blaming Machismo 7. The Biopolitical Drama of HIV Funding 8. Decolonizing Global Health Bibliography Notes Index Acknowledgments
£32.40
Rutgers University Press Fault Lines of Care Gender HIV and Global Health
Book SynopsisHeckert provides a detailed examination of the effects of global health and governmental policy decisions on the everyday lives of people living with HIV in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She focuses on the gendered dynamics that play a role in the development and implementation of HIV care programs and shows how decisions made from above impact what happens on the ground. Trade Review“Fault Lines of Care is a remarkable book of the type many of us strive for: a finely grained, moving ethnography that articulates the nature of the broad interactions among individual, community, state-level, and global dynamics in the domain of international HIV/AIDS care. Heckert is a lucid, evocative writer and frankly, I found the book hard to put down.” -- Carole H. Browner * coauthor of Neurogenetic Diagnoses, the Power of Hope, and the Limits of Today’s Medicine *“Carina Heckert’s evocative and wrenching ethnography, Fault Lines of Care, conveys the frustrating and at times deadly entanglements of global health agendas with the intimate lived experiences of people living with HIV/ AIDS in resource poor communities in Bolivia. Heckert invites readers on an emotionally-charged journey through her interlocutors’ intimate and social experiences of seeking care for HIV/AIDS and ultimately their struggles for survival. This ethnographically rich rendering is an important contribution to our understanding of how people’s experiences of chronic disease interact with the biopolitical contours of inequality and poverty, in Bolivia and globally.” -- Nia Parson * author of Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile *"Chronicle of Higher Education Weekly Book List," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"As a case study in global health strategy, [Bolivia] is a useful example because of the often unexpected ways in which local politics, societal structures, and culture interact to undermine efforts to combat the HIV epidemic." * The Lancet *"Heckert writes in an engaging and accessible style and clearly explains her theoretical approach to understanding her ethnographic data. She nicely balances her discussion of the historical, social, and political context of HIV care with case studies of HIV-positive people doing their best to navigate the healthcare system and make decisions about when and how to access care." * American Journal of Human Biology *"Comprehensive and impressively written." * The Latin Americanist *"Fault Lines of Care offers a thoughtful examination of an HIV epidemic....This book offers an excellent resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in medical anthropology and health sciences. It poses important questions for future researchers to consider, including why our stubborn reliance on metrics and disease-specific approaches to global health care persist." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of Contents1. Fault Lines 2. Decolonizing Bolivia 3. When Care is a “Systematic Route of Torture” 4. Aiding Women 5. Synergistic Silences 6. Blaming Machismo 7. The Biopolitical Drama of HIV Funding 8. Decolonizing Global Health Bibliography Notes Index Acknowledgments
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health
Book SynopsisSpeech and Song at the Margins of Global Health tells the story of a unique Zulu gospel choir comprised of people living with HIV in South Africa, and how they maintained healthy, productive lives amid globalized inequality, international aid, and the stigma that often comes with having HIV.Trade ReviewIn a bold move that crosses analytic divides between medical anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and ethnomusicology, Steven Black explores connections between HIV/AIDS, medicine, music, faith and activism in South Africa. The analytic scope of Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health is matched by its inspiring ethnographic depth. -- Charles Briggs * co-author of Making Health Public *This ethnographically rich volume explores the remarkable case of a South African Zulu choir in Durban consisting of HIV sufferers who, as activists, negotiate social stigma and medical organizations through song, faith, comradeship and traditional language. Black’s concepts of ‘bio-speech community’ and medical-semiotic ‘transposition’ provide an innovative theoretical framework. -- David Parkin * author of Anthropology Situated in the Contemporary World *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork Amid Globalized Inequities and Stigma 3. The Embodied Reflexivity of a Bio-Speech Community 4. The Power of Global Health Audiences 5. HIV Transposition Amid the Multiple Explanatory Models of Science, Faith, and Tradition 6. The Linguistic Anthropology of Stigma 7. Performance and the Transposition of Global Health Ethics of Disclosure 8. Conclusion 9. Acknowledgements References
£26.09
Rutgers University Press Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health
Book SynopsisTells the story of a unique Zulu gospel choir comprised of people living with HIV in South Africa, and how they maintained healthy, productive lives amid globalized inequality, international aid, and the stigma that often comes with having HIV.Trade ReviewThis ethnographically rich volume explores the remarkable case of a South African Zulu choir in Durban consisting of HIV sufferers who, as activists, negotiate social stigma and medical organizations through song, faith, comradeship and traditional language. Black’s concepts of ‘bio-speech community’ and medical-semiotic ‘transposition’ provide an innovative theoretical framework. — David Parkin, author of Anthropology Situated in the Contemporary World In a bold move that crosses analytic divides between medical anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and ethnomusicology, Steven Black explores connections between HIV/AIDS, medicine, music, faith and activism in South Africa. The analytic scope of Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health is matched by its inspiring ethnographic depth. — Charles Briggs, co-author of Making Health PublicTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork Amid Globalized Inequities and Stigma 3. The Embodied Reflexivity of a Bio-Speech Community 4. The Power of Global Health Audiences 5. HIV Transposition Amid the Multiple Explanatory Models of Science, Faith, and Tradition 6. The Linguistic Anthropology of Stigma 7. Performance and the Transposition of Global Health Ethics of Disclosure 8. Conclusion 9. Acknowledgements References
£105.40
New York University Press Men at Risk Masculinity Heterosexuality and HIV
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMen at Risk offers an incisive critique of several decades of HIV prevention programming that has largely rendered heterosexually-active men invisible to public health knowledge and practice.It wrestles candidly with the many conceptual, methodological, and political dilemmas of feminist work on masculinities.But, it also points to important successes and opportunities in gender-transformative and intersectional work with men and boys. Dworkins account of this terrain is thoroughgoing and expert, but also forceful and politically clear-eyed. -- Christopher J. Colvin,Senior Researcher in HIV/AIDS at the University of Cape Town, South AfricaA timely and evocative contribution to the growing literature globally on masculinity and HIV prevention. With a focus firmly on heterosexual mens practices and experiences, Men at Risk fills a major gap.A & must read for scholars of gender and sexuality in relation to HIV, and a valuable resource to inspire policy makers and program developers. -- Peter Aggleton,author of Education, Vulnerability, and HIV/AIDS
£19.79
MD - Duke University Press Fatal Advice
Book SynopsisThe American public responded to the first cases of AIDS with fear and panic. This work offers an examination of how the nation attempted, with mixed results, to negotiate the fears and concerns brought on by the epidemic. It traces a slow separation between official advice and that provided by those on the front lines in the battle against AIDS.Trade Review“A book of life-and-death importance on the politics of safe-sex. I can think of few other books that contribute so significantly to both cultural criticism and, in every sense of the term, public health.”—Constance Penley, author of The Future of an Illusion and coeditor of Male Trouble“An urgent and important work. Once again, Patton’s usual brilliance is much in evidence—her irreverent and eclectic roving around different cultural and disciplinary domains, her perceptive readings of specific texts, her ear to various subcultural grounds, her wisdom based on personal history in the queer media and AIDS community movements.”—Thomas Waugh, author of The Fruit MachineTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 1. Around 1989 3 2. Between Innocence and Safety 35 3. The Erotics of Innocence 63 4. "The Only Weapon We Have . . ." 95 5. Visualizing Safe Sex 118 Conclusion: From Visibility to Insurrection: A Manifesto 139 Notes 157 Bibliography 171 Index 177
£74.70
Duke University Press How to Have Theory in an Epidemic
Book SynopsisPresents a comprehensive collection of writings, including essays from the 1980s and 1990s that present an argument about the AIDS epidemic. The author addresses a range of issues, from biomedical discourse and theories of pathogenesis to the mainstream media's depictions of the crisis in both developed and developing countries.Trade Review“Looking backward and ahead, How to Have Theory in an Epidemic is nothing short of a handbook of the meanings of AIDS: as human experience, as political reality, as public service action, and, not least of all, as moral engagement with one of the great challenges to meaning-making and unmaking in everyday life.”—Dr. Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University“Paula Treichler’s essays are certainly among the most significant written on the subject of AIDS. They are, in fact, a model of what the field of cultural studies at its best can contribute to our thinking about urgent social and political issues. This is an essential book, one that will strongly affect the way people approach the subject of AIDS in the future.”—Douglas Crimp, author of AIDS: Demo Graphics“How to Have Theory in an Epidemic is a history of histories. . . . Treichler’s accomplishment is without question extremely important and useful. The book and voluminous endnotes cache a vast amount of information and documentation, while the bibliography is a boon to anyone doing serious interdisciplinary work on AIDS. [This] is a major work that scholars and students are likely to consult for many years to come.” -- Patrice Clark Koelsch * Women's Review of Books *“How to Have Theory in an Epidemic is one of the most thorough explorations of AIDS and its representations to be published in the last few years.” -- Christopher Voigt * A&U Magazine *“[How to Have Theory in an Epidemic’s] significance lies in the cultural lessons that we can learn from this epidemic and increased sensititivity to cultural issues that are ‘far more pervasive and central than we are accustomed to believing.’. . . To the extent that this author demonstrates that medicine is a legitimate and practical topic in cultural studies, the influence of this work will be long-standing.” -- Lisa K. Waldner * JAMA *“An important new contribution to this young field. . . . Even though it is not a work of historical scholarship, How to Have Theory in an Epidemic provides much of the insight into events that we might otherwise look for in cultural histories of the HIV epidemic published years from now. The author’s scholarship spans the media, from high art to comic strips. . . . This book is an important addition to the growing literature analyzing illness—and the HIV epidemic—from social and cultural perspectives, and it will be appreciated by many.” -- Allen L. Gifford * New England Journal of Medicine *“This book is a welcome addition to any syllabus related to medicine; science; the sociology of knowledge; the media; social movements; and gender, race, class, and ethnicity. While each chapter is coherent and could stand alone, readers best experience the magnitude and power through reading the entire contents. Indeed, sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and literary and media critics, as well as epidemiologists and clinicians are fortunate to have such a blessing as Treichler’s extensive research and interpretation of AIDS/HIV.” -- Lisa Jean Moore * American Journal of Sociology *"How to Have Theory in an Epidemic makes available in one volume many of [Treichler’s] important essays from the last fifteen years and is invaluable for understanding the collision of discourse. . . . [It] provide[s] crucial insights into what happens when medical discourses on AIDS come into contact with other institutional discourses and other local meanings. . . . Challenging and necessary." -- Cris Mayo * GLQ *"Treichler’s study covers an enormous amount of material. . . . How to Have Theory in an Epidemic makes it plain that the ‘cultural evolution’ of AIDS has not yet managed to move beyond a depressingly familiar terrain of racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, and colonialism." -- Sheila McManus * Signs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix A Note on the Text xiii Prologue 1 AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification 11 The Burdens of History: Gender and Representation in AIDS Discourse, 1981–1988 42 AIDS and HIV Infection in the Third World: A First World Chronicle 99 Seduced and Terrorized: AIDS in the Media 127 AIDS, HIV, and the Cultural Construction of Reality 149 AIDS Narratives on Television: Whose Story? 176 AIDS, Africa, and Cultural Theory 205 Beyond Cosmo: AIDS, Identity, and Inscriptions of Gender 235 How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: The Evolution of AIDS, Treatment, and Activism 278 Epilogue 315 Notes 331 Bibliography 387 Index 453
£27.90
Duke University Press The Republic of Therapy
Book SynopsisThe story of the global response to the HIV epidemic, told from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa between 1994 and 2000.Trade Review“Neither activist, nor politician, nor patient, nor pharmaceutical provider, Nguyen brings a more objective perspective to the AIDS crisis, even as he gives a first- hand account and conveys his close relationships with HIV-positive patients. A telling and provocative study of AIDS treatment in Africa, The Republic of Therapy offers no prospective solutions, but highlights the complexities and power dynamics inherent in the process of intervention.” - Sarah Fletcher, Montreal Review of Books“[A] book that can and will be read by audiences far beyond the domain of medical anthropology. The resultant volume captures the evanescent history of a slowly developing crisis within the rapidly changing landscape of postcolonial health in sub-Saharan Africa. In this unsparing and clear-eyed account, Nguyen admirably sets forth the difficult but necessary task for contemporary social scientists in the critique of global health practices.” - Jeremy A. Greene, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences“[P]ath-breaking. . . . Nguyen’s strengths as an ethnographer are his capacity to move among different organizations and institutions, his sensitivity to the roles he plays in these contexts, and his long-term engagement with local activists and other informants, and he parries these strengths into a nuanced account of the urban politics of triage and HIV in West Africa.” - Betsey Brada, Somatosphere“This work is notable not only for the quality of its craft but also the degree to which it lends a personal face to political and economic crisis.... Written in lucid, largely understated prose and drawing on the author’s long experience as both physician and anthropologist, the result is sure to provoke discussion and reaction well beyond the discipline.” - Peter Redfield, American Anthropologist“The activist, physician, and anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen has written an engaged, rigorous, and compelling account of the years when, in West Africa, AIDS treatment started to become available and persons living with HIV began to organize. With insight and sympathy, he explores how new political forms were thus invented in Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso, combining therapeutic sovereignty and health democracy, triage of patients and empowerment of communities, confessions and accusations.”—Didier Fassin, author of When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa“[A] book that can and will be read by audiences far beyond the domain of medical anthropology. The resultant volume captures the evanescent history of a slowly developing crisis within the rapidly changing landscape of postcolonial health in sub-Saharan Africa. In this unsparing and clear-eyed account, Nguyen admirably sets forth the difficult but necessary task for contemporary social scientists in the critique of global health practices.” -- Jeremy A. Greene * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *“[P]ath-breaking. . . . Nguyen’s strengths as an ethnographer are his capacity to move among different organizations and institutions, his sensitivity to the roles he plays in these contexts, and his long-term engagement with local activists and other informants, and he parries these strengths into a nuanced account of the urban politics of triage and HIV in West Africa.” -- Betsey Brada * Somatosphere *“Neither activist, nor politician, nor patient, nor pharmaceutical provider, Nguyen brings a more objective perspective to the AIDS crisis, even as he gives a first- hand account and conveys his close relationships with HIV-positive patients. A telling and provocative study of AIDS treatment in Africa, The Republic of Therapy offers no prospective solutions, but highlights the complexities and power dynamics inherent in the process of intervention.” -- Sarah Fletcher * Montreal Review of Books *“This work is notable not only for the quality of its craft but also the degree to which it lends a personal face to political and economic crisis.... Written in lucid, largely understated prose and drawing on the author’s long experience as both physician and anthropologist, the result is sure to provoke discussion and reaction well beyond the discipline.” -- Peter Redfield * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Côte-d'Ivoire and Triage in the Time of AIDS 1 1. Testimonials That Bind: Organizing Communities with HIV 15 2. Confessional Technologies: Conjuring the Self 35 3. Soldiers of God: Together and Apart 61 4. Life Itself: Triage and Therapeutic Citizenship 89 5. Biopower: Fevers, Tribes, and Bulldozers 111 6. The Crisis: Economies, Warriors, and the Erosion of Sovereignty 137 7. Uses and Pleasures: The Republic Inside Out 157 Conclusion: Who Lives? Who Dies? 175 Notes 189 References 205 Index 229
£76.50
Duke University Press The Republic of Therapy
Book SynopsisThe story of the global response to the HIV epidemic, told from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa between 1994 and 2000.Trade Review“Neither activist, nor politician, nor patient, nor pharmaceutical provider, Nguyen brings a more objective perspective to the AIDS crisis, even as he gives a first- hand account and conveys his close relationships with HIV-positive patients. A telling and provocative study of AIDS treatment in Africa, The Republic of Therapy offers no prospective solutions, but highlights the complexities and power dynamics inherent in the process of intervention.” - Sarah Fletcher, Montreal Review of Books“[A] book that can and will be read by audiences far beyond the domain of medical anthropology. The resultant volume captures the evanescent history of a slowly developing crisis within the rapidly changing landscape of postcolonial health in sub-Saharan Africa. In this unsparing and clear-eyed account, Nguyen admirably sets forth the difficult but necessary task for contemporary social scientists in the critique of global health practices.” - Jeremy A. Greene, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences“[P]ath-breaking. . . . Nguyen’s strengths as an ethnographer are his capacity to move among different organizations and institutions, his sensitivity to the roles he plays in these contexts, and his long-term engagement with local activists and other informants, and he parries these strengths into a nuanced account of the urban politics of triage and HIV in West Africa.” - Betsey Brada, Somatosphere“This work is notable not only for the quality of its craft but also the degree to which it lends a personal face to political and economic crisis.... Written in lucid, largely understated prose and drawing on the author’s long experience as both physician and anthropologist, the result is sure to provoke discussion and reaction well beyond the discipline.” - Peter Redfield, American Anthropologist“The activist, physician, and anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen has written an engaged, rigorous, and compelling account of the years when, in West Africa, AIDS treatment started to become available and persons living with HIV began to organize. With insight and sympathy, he explores how new political forms were thus invented in Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso, combining therapeutic sovereignty and health democracy, triage of patients and empowerment of communities, confessions and accusations.”—Didier Fassin, author of When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa“[A] book that can and will be read by audiences far beyond the domain of medical anthropology. The resultant volume captures the evanescent history of a slowly developing crisis within the rapidly changing landscape of postcolonial health in sub-Saharan Africa. In this unsparing and clear-eyed account, Nguyen admirably sets forth the difficult but necessary task for contemporary social scientists in the critique of global health practices.” -- Jeremy A. Greene * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *“[P]ath-breaking. . . . Nguyen’s strengths as an ethnographer are his capacity to move among different organizations and institutions, his sensitivity to the roles he plays in these contexts, and his long-term engagement with local activists and other informants, and he parries these strengths into a nuanced account of the urban politics of triage and HIV in West Africa.” -- Betsey Brada * Somatosphere *“Neither activist, nor politician, nor patient, nor pharmaceutical provider, Nguyen brings a more objective perspective to the AIDS crisis, even as he gives a first- hand account and conveys his close relationships with HIV-positive patients. A telling and provocative study of AIDS treatment in Africa, The Republic of Therapy offers no prospective solutions, but highlights the complexities and power dynamics inherent in the process of intervention.” -- Sarah Fletcher * Montreal Review of Books *“This work is notable not only for the quality of its craft but also the degree to which it lends a personal face to political and economic crisis.... Written in lucid, largely understated prose and drawing on the author’s long experience as both physician and anthropologist, the result is sure to provoke discussion and reaction well beyond the discipline.” -- Peter Redfield * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Côte-d'Ivoire and Triage in the Time of AIDS 1 1. Testimonials That Bind: Organizing Communities with HIV 15 2. Confessional Technologies: Conjuring the Self 35 3. Soldiers of God: Together and Apart 61 4. Life Itself: Triage and Therapeutic Citizenship 89 5. Biopower: Fevers, Tribes, and Bulldozers 111 6. The Crisis: Economies, Warriors, and the Erosion of Sovereignty 137 7. Uses and Pleasures: The Republic Inside Out 157 Conclusion: Who Lives? Who Dies? 175 Notes 189 References 205 Index 229
£25.19
Fordham University Press Hijras Lovers Brothers Surviving Sex and Poverty
Book SynopsisThis engrossing ethnography of one of South Asia’s third gendered or trans populations reveals not a group of marginalized others but a way of life composed of laughter, struggles, and desires. The book shows how hijras trouble how we read queerness, kinship, and the psyche.Table of ContentsIntroduction: That Limpid Liquid within Young Men | 1 1 A Prodigious Birth of Love | 25 2 In False Brothers, Evil Awakens | 62 Interlude: Standing at a Slight Angle to the Universe | 100 3 Something Rotten in the State | 106 4 Love May Transform Me | 140 5 I Have Immortal Longings in Me | 179 Acknowledgments | 197 Notes | 201 References | 235 Index | 249
£23.39
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Setting Priorities for HIVAIDS Interventions A
Book SynopsisHIV/AIDS is much too complex a phenomenon to be understood only by reference to common sense and ethical codes. This book presents the costâbenefit analysis (CBA) framework in a well-researched and accessible manner to ensure that the most important considerations are recognized and incorporated.Trade Review‘Professor Brent’s book is a superlative addition to the HIV/AIDS policy literature. Both non-specialists and specialists in policy evaluation will benefit from the lucid exposition of cost–benefit analysis (CBA) methods applied to the most critical and far-reaching problem that challenges social institutions and individual behavior. Essentially, Professor Brent has taken his vast experience in cost–benefit analysis, and on the ground African research, to apply CBA in a compelling and insightful manner. This book re-examines HIV/AIDS policy in Sub-Saharan countries where the devastation is an infection tsunami. . . Finding what actually works may be difficult, but Professor Brent argues persuasively that using a CBA framework is the best approach.’ -- William S. Cartwright, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: WHY COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIS IS NEEDED TO SET HIV/AIDS PRIORITIES 1. Introduction to the Book 2. Why Not Just Simply do What is Right and Try to Save Lives? 3. Myths and Misinformation 4. Counterintuitive Results 5. What is Wrong with Setting any Targets? 6. What is Wrong with Setting the Particular MDG Targets? 7. Cost–Benefit Analysis 101 8. Cost–Benefit Analysis 201 PART II: HIV/AIDS AS A HUNGER AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUE 9. Introduction to Part II 10. HIV and Hunger 11. Nutrition and HIV at the Individual Level 12. Nutrition and HIV at the Country Level 13. Income as a Factor Raising HIV Rates 14. Education as a Factor Raising HIV Rates 15. Islam as a Factor Lowering HIV Rates 16. Impact of HIV on Agricultural Households 17. Agricultural Policy and HIV Interventions 18. Sex and HIV I: The Role of Transmission 19. Sex and HIV II: The Role of Concurrency 20. Sex and HIV III: The Role of Networks PART III: COST–BENEFIT METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 21. Introduction to Part III 22. Threshold Analysis Theory 23. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Effectiveness of HIV Education 24. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Benefits of Avoiding HIV 25. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Costs of a Possible HIV/AIDS Vaccine 26. Willingness to Pay Theory 27. Willingness to Pay Practice: The Benefits of Condoms 28. Cost Minimization Theory 29. Cost Minimization Practice: The Costs of Treating TB 30. Cost-Effectiveness Theory 31. Cost-Effectiveness Practice: The Benefits of ARVs 32. Human Capital Theory 33. Human Capital Practice: The Benefits of Female Primary Education 34. Value of a Statistical Life Theory 35. Value of a Statistical Life Practice: The Benefits of VCT PART IV: SOCIAL CONSIDERATIONS IN CBA 36. Introduction to IV 37. Commodification: Everything is Seen as a Commodity to be Bought and Sold 38. What is So “Social” About CBA? Fundamentals of CBA 39. Social and Private Perspectives in CBA 40. CBA and Equity I: Allowing for Ability to Pay 41. CBA and Equity II: Allocating by Time and Other Non-Price Methods 42. Conclusions I: How Not to Set Priorities for HIV 43. Conclusions II: Using CBA to Set Priorities for HIV References Index
£29.95
MJ - Ohio University Press The Children of Africa Confront AIDS From
Book SynopsisThe Children of Africa Confront AIDS depicts the reality of how African children deal with the AIDS epidemic, and how the discourse of their vulnerability affects acts of coping and courage.Trade Review“A stellar contribution in the best tradition of applied social science while providing a bridgehead into the courageous world of the African orphan.” * Africa Today *
£23.39
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Nutrition and HIV
Book SynopsisWritten by a specialist dietitian for dietitians and related health professionals Contributions from an international team of authors Covers paediatric and adult care Includes international case studies .Trade Review“Students and other health care professionals working and studying this area will also find Nutrition and HIV an important and valuable resource.” (MedReview, 1 November 2012) "This book delivers comprehensive, evidenced-based information on the nutritional management of HIV patients. Given the great detail, it would best serve as a resource for dietitians who regularly care for HIV patients." (Doody's, 19 August 2011) Table of ContentsList of Contributors xiv Preface xviii Acknowledgements xix SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction to Human Immunodeficiency Virus 3 Tanya Welz, Amanda Samarawickrama, Vivian Pribram, Bavithra Nathan, Lisa Hamzah and Emily Cheserem 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Current state of the epidemic 4 1.3 HIV transmission 5 1.4 About the virus 6 1.5 Diagnosis of HIV 8 1.6 Measurement of CD4 cells 8 1.7 Natural history of untreated HIV infection and AIDS 10 1.8 Staging and classification of HIV disease 10 1.9 Monitoring the HIV pandemic 12 1.10 Prevention 13 1.11 Effect of antiretroviral therapy on the HIV epidemic 14 1.12 Stigma 14 2 Introduction to Nutrition and HIV 18 Vivian Pribram 2.1 Introduction 18 2.2 Malnutrition, infectious disease and immune function 19 2.3 HIV infection and decreased nutritional status 21 2.4 Nutritional screening and assessment 22 2.5 Metabolic and morphological complications 23 2.6 Paediatric undernutrition and maternal and child health 24 2.7 Healthy eating and management of HIV for well-being and longevity 26 2.8 Management of co-morbidities and serious non-HIV conditions 27 2.9 End-of-life care and ethical issues 29 SECTION 2: PAEDIATRIC NUTRITION, MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH 3 Malnutrition, Infant Feeding, Maternal and Child Health 35 Theresa Banda, Vivian Pribram, Margaret Lawson, Catherine Mkangama and Gertrude Nyirenda 3.1 Introduction 35 3.2 Maternal health and nutrition 36 3.3 Mother-to-child transmission 41 3.4 Infant feeding in the context of HIV 43 3.5 Malnutrition in children with HIV 49 4 Paediatric Nutritional Screening, Assessment and Support 58 Lisa Cooke 4.1 Introduction 58 4.2 Nutritional assessment and screening 58 4.3 Dietary assessment – what to do 61 4.4 Nutritional support 68 5 Adherence, Symptom Management, Psychological Aspects and Multidisciplinary Care of Children with HIV 72 Daya Nayagam, Paul Archer, Susheela Sababady, Shema Doshi, and Ella Sherlock 5.1 Transmission of HIV in children and young people 72 5.2 Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (vertical transmission) 73 5.3 Clinical presentation of paediatric HIV infection 73 5.4 Failure to thrive 73 5.5 Central nervous system 74 5.6 Hepatosplenomegaly 74 5.7 Older children 74 5.8 HIV disease and opportunistic infections 74 5.9 Prophylaxis 74 5.10 Antiretroviral treatment for children 75 5.11 Monitoring of paediatric HIV infection 77 5.12 Caring for children and their families in the community 77 5.13 Adherence, symptom management, psychological aspects and multidisciplinary care of children with HIV and AIDS 78 5.14 Nutritional care in a multidisciplinary team setting 81 5.15 The psychological effects of HIV on family functioning – key themes which arise in a child setting 82 6 Healthy Eating, Prevention and Management of Obesity and Long-Term Complications in Children 87 Julie Lanigan 6.1 Introduction 87 6.2 Metabolic complications 88 6.3 Malnutrition and HIV 88 6.4 Micronutrients and HIV 88 6.5 Obesity 90 6.6 Lipodystrophy 91 6.7 Assessment and monitoring 94 6.8 Dietary intake assessment 94 6.9 Advice for healthy eating 94 6.10 Conclusion 100 SECTION 3: NUTRITIONAL MANAGEMENT OF HIV DISEASE 7 Decreased Nutritional Status and Nutritional Interventions for People Living with HIV 107 Vivian Pribram 7.1 Introduction/Background 107 7.2 Malnutrition, weight loss and wasting 107 7.3 Significance of involuntary weight loss 108 7.4 Definitions of HIV-related weight loss and wasting 109 7.5 Prevalence 110 7.6 Aetiology 110 7.7 Nutritional requirements 116 7.8 Nutritional management 117 7.9 Non-nutritional treatments for HIV-related muscle wasting 122 7.10 Micronutrients 125 7.11 Conclusions 128 8 Nutritional Screening and Assessment 132 Sarah Woodman, Michelle Sutcliffe and Amy McDonald 8.1 Overview 132 8.2 Nutritional screening in the clinical setting 134 8.3 Nutritional assessment 136 8.4 Biochemical assessment 146 8.5 Clinical assessment 148 8.6 Dietary and lifestyle assessment 150 8.7 Conclusion 153 9 Symptom Control and Management 157 Louise Houtzager and Tim Barnes 9.1 Symptoms experienced by people living with HIV 157 9.2 Referring patients to a dietitian for symptom control and management 158 9.3 Goals of dietary symptom management strategies 159 9.4 Symptom control and management of diarrhoea 159 9.5 Symptom control and management of loss of appetite 165 9.6 Mouth pain, taste changes and swallowing difficulties 165 9.7 Reflux (heartburn) 170 9.8 Symptom control and management of nausea and vomiting 171 9.9 Symptom control and management of fatigue 171 9.10 Conclusion 174 10 The Nutritional Management of Complications Associated with HIV and Antiretroviral Therapy 176 Alastair Duncan and Karen Klassen 10.1 Introduction 176 10.2 Aetiology of metabolic side effects 177 10.3 Prevalence of metabolic side effects 178 10.4 Assessment of metabolic parameters and cardiovascular disease risk 179 10.5 Management of dyslipidaemias 180 10.6 Management of impaired glucose metabolism 185 10.7 Management of altered fat distribution 188 10.8 Altered bone metabolism 193 10.9 Management of lactic acidaemia 199 10.10 Peripheral neuropathy 199 10.11 Routine assessment, dietary and lifestyle management of metabolic complications 200 10.12 Summary 201 11 Community Interventions in Resource-Limited Settings 212 Claire de Menezes and Kate Ogden 11.1 Introduction 212 11.2 HIV and nutrition in resource-limited settings 213 11.3 Assessment of needs and capacities 215 11.4 Targeting 217 11.5 Nutrition counselling and education 218 11.6 Targeted food supplementation programmes 221 11.7 Support of HIV-positive pregnant women 223 11.8 Breastfeeding and infant feeding support 225 11.9 Support for other vulnerable groups 227 11.10 Treatment of severe acute malnutrition in HIV context 229 11.11 Micronutrient supplementation programmes 230 11.12 Livelihood support and ensuring access to food 230 11.13 Community mobilisation to support people living with HIV 234 11.14 Monitoring 236 11.15 Other issues 237 11.16 Conclusion 238 SECTION 4: HEALTHY LIVING AND LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT 12 Medications, Adherence and Interactions with Food 243 Angela Bailey 12.1 HIV medications – background 243 12.2 Drug interactions 256 12.3 Micronutrients used in HIV infection 257 12.4 Food and drug interactions 257 12.5 Adherence 261 12.6 Adherence and food 264 12.7 Looking to the future 266 12.8 Conclusion 268 13 Healthy Eating and Well-Being 275 Vivian Pribram and Kirsten Foster 13.1 Diet, lifestyle and disease prevention 275 13.2 The importance of healthy eating for people living with HIV (PLHIV) 276 13.3 Factors that affect healthy eating and improved well-being among PLHIV 277 13.4 Other lifestyle factors that influence health outcomes 280 13.5 Principles of healthy eating 282 13.6 Portion sizes and quantity of food required 295 13.7 Weight management for people living with HIV 295 13.8 Summary 299 14 Exercise and Physical Activity and Long-Term Management of HIV 302 Joanna Lucy Bowtell and Rebecca Weissbort 14.1 Introduction 302 14.2 Observational studies 304 14.3 Effect of exercise on immunological parameters 305 14.4 Effect of exercise on wasting 306 14.5 Management of metabolic disturbances with exercise programmes 308 14.6 Effect of exercise on quality of life and physical capacity 312 14.7 Exercise prescription for people living with HIV/AIDS 313 14.8 Practical considerations for exercise prescription 314 14.9 Exercise programme for a patient living with HIV 316 14.10 Conclusion 319 15 Mental Health 324 Shirley Hamilton and Christian Lee 15.1 Introduction 324 15.2 Mental disorders and nutrition 324 15.3 Acute cognitive impairment 325 15.4 Delirium and nutrition 326 15.5 Chronic cognitive impairment 326 15.6 Chronic cognitive impairment and nutrition 327 15.7 Depression 327 15.8 Depression and nutrition 328 15.9 Management of depression 329 15.10 Suicide 332 15.11 Management of suicidal ideation 333 15.12 Mania 333 15.13 Mania and nutrition 333 15.14 Anxiety 334 15.15 Psychosis 336 15.16 Socio-economic factors for mental health/HIV clients affecting nutrition 339 15.17 Personality disorders 340 15.18 Dual diagnosis 340 15.19 Nutritional management of patients with HIV/mental health issues 341 16 Complementary and Alternative Therapy 345 Charle Maritz, Sharon Byrne and Vivian Pribram 16.1 Introduction 345 16.2 Safety and regulation of CAT therapy 346 16.3 Use of CAT 346 16.4 Factors influencing use of CAT 347 16.5 CAT use in HIV 347 16.6 Reasons for CAT use among PLHIV 348 16.7 Information sources about CAT 349 16.8 Disclosure of CAT use 349 16.9 Evidence for the use of CAT 349 16.10 Dietary supplements 350 16.11 Dietary supplement use among PLHIV 350 16.12 Knowledge of drug–CAT interactions 351 16.13 Herbal remedies 353 16.14 Addressing patients’ use of CAT 356 16.15 Conclusions 356 17 Food and Water Safety 360 Louise Houtzager 17.1 Introduction 360 17.2 Why food and water safety is important for PLHIV 360 17.3 Causes of food- and waterborne illness in PLHIV 362 17.4 Management and prevention of food-borne illness 373 17.5 Conclusion 380 SECTION 5: THE NUTRITIONAL MANAGEMENT OF HIV AND CO-MORBIDITIES 18 The Nutritional Management of Patients Living with Tuberculosis and HIV Co-Infection 385 Louise Houtzager, Tim Barnes and Kirilee Matters 18.1 Tuberculosis 385 18.2 Epidemiology 386 18.3 The relationship between tuberculosis and HIV 387 18.4 Medical issues 388 18.5 Nutrition, HIV infection and TB 390 18.6 Nutrition screening 392 18.7 Nutrition assessment: special considerations in TB 392 18.8 Nutritional treatment/intervention 393 18.9 Recommendations 394 19 The Nutritional Management of Patients Living with HIV and Renal Disease 396 Deepa Kariyawasam 19.1 Introduction 396 19.2 Presentation and symptoms 397 19.3 Screening 397 19.4 Diagnosis 397 19.5 Classification of chronic kidney disease 397 19.6 Treatment 398 19.7 Methods of renal replacement therapy 398 19.8 Renal transplantation 399 19.9 Nutritional issues on dialysis 402 19.10 Nutritional assessment 402 19.11 Nutritional requirements 403 19.12 Treatment 403 19.13 Conclusion 409 20 The Nutritional Management of Patients Living with HIV and Liver Disease 412 Tracy Russell and Ruth Westwood 20.1 Introduction 412 20.2 Hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV 413 20.3 Nutrition and liver disease 415 20.4 Liver transplantation 420 20.5 Nutritional interventions for hepatitis C 420 20.6 HIV and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease 421 20.7 Use of complementary and alternative therapies (CAT) in liver disease 422 20.8 Vulnerable groups 423 20.9 Conclusion 424 21 Critical Care, Respiratory and Multi-organ Failure 427 Sarah Cassimjee 21.1 Background/overview 427 21.2 Diseases and infections associated with ITU admission 428 21.3 Sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) 430 21.4 Neurological failure 430 21.5 Cardiovascular failure 430 21.6 Gastrointestinal (GI) failure 430 21.7 Liver failure 430 21.8 Renal failure 431 21.9 Medical treatment 431 21.10 Nutritional considerations 431 21.11 Nutritional assessment 433 21.12 Nutritional requirements 433 21.13 Nutritional treatments/intervention 438 21.14 Early feeding and the use of enteral feeding protocols 438 21.15 Conclusion 439 22 Nutritional Management of Patients Living with HIV and Cancer 442 Rachael Donnelly and Rachel Barrett 22.1 Introduction 442 22.2 Science of cancer 443 22.3 Overview of cancer treatments 444 22.4 Cancers in HIV infection 447 22.5 Nutrition in the management of non-surgical oncology patients 451 SECTION 6: PALLIATIVE, END OF LIFE CARE AND NUTRITION 23 Nutrition and End of Life Care 459 Vivian Pribram 23.1 Introduction 459 23.2 Palliative care 461 23.3 Nutritional care in later stages of progressive illness 462 23.4 Ethical and legal considerations 464 23.5 Withdrawal of nutrition 469 23.6 Implications for practice 470 23.7 Conclusion 470 APPENDICES 473 Appendix 1 WHO Clinical Staging of HIV/AIDS for Adults and Adolescents 475 Appendix 2 Weight-for-Height Reference Card (87 cm and above) 477 Appendix 3 Weight-for-Length Reference Card (below 87 cm) 478 Appendix 4 Guidance Table to Identify Target Weight 479 Appendix 5 Basic Steps in Estimating Energy Requirements for Adults 480 Appendix 6 NICE Guidelines: What to Give in Hospital and the Community 482 Appendix 7 Basic Steps in Estimation of Nitrogen Requirements for Adults (Source: Elia, 1990) 484 Appendix 8 Summary of ESPEN Statements: HIV and Nutritional Therapy 485 Appendix 9 Form for Monitoring Anthropometry Measurements 487 Appendix 10 Equations to Calculate Height and Estimation of Height from Ulna Length 488 Appendix 11 Mid Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) 490 Appendix 12 Mid Arm Muscle Circumference (MAMC) 491 Appendix 13 Biochemical Reference Ranges 492 Appendix 14 Ways to Improve Adherence to TB Medication 493 Appendix 15 The BCG Vaccination 494 Index 495
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Johns Hopkins University Press A Womans Guide to Living with HIV Infection
Book SynopsisThis new edition of A Woman's Guide to Living with HIV Infection includes the latest information on diagnosis and treatments as well as recent findings about pregnancy and HIV, starting treatments when you have HIV-related complications, liver health and hepatitis, and sexual health.Trade ReviewA wealth of information is included in a holistic, patient oriented format with helpful key questions prefacing each chapter and many supplemental, easy to understand tables and charts. Reference and Research Book NewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Women and the HIV/AIDS EpidemicPart One: Adjusting to Life with HIV Infection1. Testing for HIV2. Finding a Primary Care Provider and Preparing for Your Visit3. HIV, the Immune System, and Monitoring TestsPart Two: Meeting the Challenge of HIV Infection4. Recognizing Symptoms and Preventing Complications5. Hepatitis and the Liver6. Treatments for HIVPart Three: Sexual and Gynecologic Health7. Protecting Yourself and Others8. Gynecologic Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases9. Human Papillomavirus Infections, Genital Warts, and Abnormal Pap SmearsPart Four: Reproduction10. Considering Pregnancy and Birth Control11. Pregnancy12. Menstrual PeriodsPart Five: Taking Care of Yourself: Special Considerations13. Breast Health, Bone Health, and Heart Health14. Alcohol Dependence, Drug Addiction, and Treatment15. Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse16. Managing Your Feelings17. Chronic Pain, Palliative Care, and Hospice18. Planning for the Future19. Research Studies and Clinical TrialsAppendix 1: Sample Tracking Sheet for Medications, Tests, and VaccinationsAppendix 2: Resources for People with HIVGlossaryKey ReferencesIndex
£37.35
Johns Hopkins University Press A Womans Guide to Living with HIV Infection
Book SynopsisThis new edition of A Woman's Guide to Living with HIV Infection includes the latest information on diagnosis and treatments as well as recent findings about pregnancy and HIV, starting treatments when you have HIV-related complications, liver health and hepatitis, and sexual health.Trade ReviewA wealth of information is included in a holistic, patient oriented format with helpful key questions prefacing each chapter and many supplemental, easy to understand tables and charts. Reference and Research Book NewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Women and the HIV/AIDS EpidemicPart One: Adjusting to Life with HIV Infection1. Testing for HIV2. Finding a Primary Care Provider and Preparing for Your Visit3. HIV, the Immune System, and Monitoring TestsPart Two: Meeting the Challenge of HIV Infection4. Recognizing Symptoms and Preventing Complications5. Hepatitis and the Liver6. Treatments for HIVPart Three: Sexual and Gynecologic Health7. Protecting Yourself and Others8. Gynecologic Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases9. Human Papillomavirus Infections, Genital Warts, and Abnormal Pap SmearsPart Four: Reproduction10. Considering Pregnancy and Birth Control11. Pregnancy12. Menstrual PeriodsPart Five: Taking Care of Yourself: Special Considerations13. Breast Health, Bone Health, and Heart Health14. Alcohol Dependence, Drug Addiction, and Treatment15. Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse16. Managing Your Feelings17. Chronic Pain, Palliative Care, and Hospice18. Planning for the Future19. Research Studies and Clinical TrialsAppendix 1: Sample Tracking Sheet for Medications, Tests, and VaccinationsAppendix 2: Resources for People with HIVGlossaryKey ReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Impatient Dr. Lange
Book SynopsisThe incredible story of Joep Lange's life and his unrelenting quest to end the HIV epidemic. When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in July 2014, the world wondered if a cure for HIV had fallen from the sky and disappeared among the burning debris. Seated in the plane's business-class cabin was Joseph Lange, better known as Joep, a shrewd Dutch doctor who had revolutionized the world of HIV and AIDS and was working on a cure. Dr. Lange graduated from medical school in 1981, right as a new plague swept across the globe. His story became intertwined with the story of HIV. At once a physician, scientist, AIDS activist, and medical diplomat, Lange studied ways to battle HIV and prevent its spread from mother to child. Fighting the injustices of poverty, Lange advocated for better access to health care for the poor and the vulnerable. He championed the drug cocktail that finally helped rein in the disease and was a vocal proponent of prophylactic treatment Trade ReviewMore than just a biography, The Impatient Dr. Lange is a must-read for medical students and history buffs; it is also a sociopolitical overview of Europe and Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. The heartbreaking stories of HIV and AIDS patients across the globe, paired with Lange’s relentless drive, propel the narrative forward. Clear, concise, and thoroughly researched, this book shows how one person with ambition, compassion, hope, and the right resources can accomplish extraordinary things.—Aimee Jodoin, Foreword ReviewsEngrossing—Laurie Garrett, The LancetYasmin offers a vivid sense of Lange's complexity, his faults and virtues, and the people and the causes he loved . . . Readers interested in the history of HIV and AIDS or biographies of persons who played a significant role in global health will find this a fascinating read.—Library JournalTable of ContentsForeword How This Book Came to Be Chapter One. The End Chapter Two. Origin Stories Chapter Three. The Epidemic Chapter Four. Learn Your Enemy Chapter Five. Unusual Bureaucrat Chapter Six. Trials Chapter Seven. Denial Chapter Eight. A Is for Activist Chapter Nine. Money and Faith Chapter Ten. Cure Epilogue Acknowledgments Index
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina To Make the Wounded Whole The African American
Book SynopsisOffers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists who pursued a wide array of grassroots approaches to slow the epidemic's spread and address its impacts.
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The University of North Carolina Press To Make the Wounded Whole
Book SynopsisOffers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists who pursued a wide array of grassroots approaches to slow the epidemic's spread and address its impacts.
£27.60
Duke University Press AIDS and the Distribution of Crises
Book SynopsisThe contributors to AIDS and the Distribution of Crises outline the myriad ways that the AIDS pandemic exists within a network of varied historical, overlapping, and ongoing crises borne of global capitalism and colonial, racialized, and gendered violence.Trade Review“An exceptionally exciting book, AIDS and the Distribution of Crises is unlike any other collection on HIV/AIDS I have read. This volume makes critically important interventions into our past, present, and future imaginations of HIV/AIDS. It should be widely read and taught.” -- Jennifer Brier, author of * Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis *“This volume reshapes our critical orientation by insisting on a conception of the AIDS pandemic not as a rarefied historical period or a particular epidemiological tragedy but rather as a space for opening up theoretical and conceptual inquires into the violent consequences caused by the ideological deployment and dissemination of ‘crisis.’ A capacious and compelling rendering of the AIDS pandemic, it offers a potent dwelling space for critical reflection and a powerful provocation into thinking otherwise about AIDS and the world at large.” -- Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of * Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora *“AIDS and the Distribution of Crises is a curated collection of perspectives and scholarly work on the past, present, and future of the global AIDS crises. . . . Any of us in the health care field who interact with patients, work in health policy, teach or work with future physicians or learners, or are interested in global health should read this compilation. The writing is illuminating, engaging and eye-opening.” -- Shruti Varadarajan * Family Medicine *Table of ContentsForeword / Cindy Patton vii Preface / Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shahani xvii Acknowledgments xxvii Introduction / Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shahani 1 1. Dispatches on the Globalization of AIDS / A Dialogue between Theodore (Ted) Kerr, Catherine Yuk-ping Lo, Ian Bradley-Perrin, Sarah Schulman, and Eric A. Stanley, with an Introduction by Nishant Shahani 29 2. The Costs of Living: Reflections on Global Health Crises / Bishnupriya Ghosh 60 3. AIDS, Women of Color Feminisms, Queer and Trans of Color Critiques, and the Crises of Knowledge Production / Jih-Fei Cheng 76 4. Safe, Soulful Sex: HIV/AIDS Talk / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery 93 5. AIDS Histories Otherwise: The Case of Haitians in Montreal / Viviane Namaste 131 6. "A Voice Demonic and Proud": Shifting the Geographies of Blame in Assotto Saint's "Sacred Life: Art and AIDS" / Darius Bost 148 7. Crisis Infrastructures: AIDS Activism Meets Internet Regulation / Cait McKinney 162 8. Dispatches from the Pasts/Memories of AIDS / A Dialogue between Cecilia Aldarondo, Roger Hallas, Pablo Alvarez, Jim Hubbard, and Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyễn , with an Introduction by Jih-Fei Cheng 183 9. Black Gay Men's Sexual Health and the Means of Pleasure in the Age of AIDS / Marlon M. Bailey 217 10. HIV, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism: Understanding PTIS, Crisis Resolution, and the Art of Ceremony / Andrew J. Jolivette 236 11. Activism and Identity in the Ruins of Representation / Juana María Rodríguez 257 12. Dispatches from the Futures of AIDS / A Dialogue between Emily Bass, Pato Hebert, Elton Naswood, Margaret Rhee, and Jessica Whitbread, with Images by Quito Ziegler and and Introduction by Alexandra Juhasz 288 Afterword. On Crisis and Abolition / C. Riley Snorton 313 Contributors 319 Index 329
£112.20
Duke University Press AIDS and the Distribution of Crises
Book SynopsisAIDS and the Distribution of Crises engages with the AIDS pandemic as a network of varied historical, overlapping, and ongoing crises born of global capitalism and colonial, racialized, gendered, and sexual violence. Drawing on their investments in activism, media, anticolonialism, feminism, and queer and trans of color critiques, the scholars, activists, and artists in this volume outline how the neoliberal logic of “crisis” structures how AIDS is aesthetically, institutionally, and politically reproduced and experienced. Among other topics, the authors examine the writing of the history of AIDS; settler colonial narratives and laws impacting risk in Indigenous communities; the early internet regulation of both content and online AIDS activism; the Black gendered and sexual politics of pleasure, desire, and (in)visibility; and how persistent attention to white men has shaped AIDS as intrinsic to multiple, unremarkable crises among people of color and in the Global STrade Review“An exceptionally exciting book, AIDS and the Distribution of Crises is unlike any other collection on HIV/AIDS I have read. This volume makes critically important interventions into our past, present, and future imaginations of HIV/AIDS. It should be widely read and taught.” -- Jennifer Brier, author of * Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis *“This volume reshapes our critical orientation by insisting on a conception of the AIDS pandemic not as a rarefied historical period or a particular epidemiological tragedy but rather as a space for opening up theoretical and conceptual inquires into the violent consequences caused by the ideological deployment and dissemination of ‘crisis.’ A capacious and compelling rendering of the AIDS pandemic, it offers a potent dwelling space for critical reflection and a powerful provocation into thinking otherwise about AIDS and the world at large.” -- Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of * Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora *“AIDS and the Distribution of Crises is a curated collection of perspectives and scholarly work on the past, present, and future of the global AIDS crises. . . . Any of us in the health care field who interact with patients, work in health policy, teach or work with future physicians or learners, or are interested in global health should read this compilation. The writing is illuminating, engaging and eye-opening.” -- Shruti Varadarajan * Family Medicine *Table of ContentsForeword / Cindy Patton vii Preface / Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shahani xvii Acknowledgments xxvii Introduction / Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shahani 1 1. Dispatches on the Globalization of AIDS / A Dialogue between Theodore (Ted) Kerr, Catherine Yuk-ping Lo, Ian Bradley-Perrin, Sarah Schulman, and Eric A. Stanley, with an Introduction by Nishant Shahani 29 2. The Costs of Living: Reflections on Global Health Crises / Bishnupriya Ghosh 60 3. AIDS, Women of Color Feminisms, Queer and Trans of Color Critiques, and the Crises of Knowledge Production / Jih-Fei Cheng 76 4. Safe, Soulful Sex: HIV/AIDS Talk / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery 93 5. AIDS Histories Otherwise: The Case of Haitians in Montreal / Viviane Namaste 131 6. "A Voice Demonic and Proud": Shifting the Geographies of Blame in Assotto Saint's "Sacred Life: Art and AIDS" / Darius Bost 148 7. Crisis Infrastructures: AIDS Activism Meets Internet Regulation / Cait McKinney 162 8. Dispatches from the Pasts/Memories of AIDS / A Dialogue between Cecilia Aldarondo, Roger Hallas, Pablo Alvarez, Jim Hubbard, and Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyễn , with an Introduction by Jih-Fei Cheng 183 9. Black Gay Men's Sexual Health and the Means of Pleasure in the Age of AIDS / Marlon M. Bailey 217 10. HIV, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism: Understanding PTIS, Crisis Resolution, and the Art of Ceremony / Andrew J. Jolivette 236 11. Activism and Identity in the Ruins of Representation / Juana María Rodríguez 257 12. Dispatches from the Futures of AIDS / A Dialogue between Emily Bass, Pato Hebert, Elton Naswood, Margaret Rhee, and Jessica Whitbread, with Images by Quito Ziegler and and Introduction by Alexandra Juhasz 288 Afterword. On Crisis and Abolition / C. Riley Snorton 313 Contributors 319 Index 329
£27.90
New York University Press Men at Risk
Book SynopsisPresents a unique approach to HIV prevention at the intersection of sociological and public health researchAlthough the first AIDS cases were attributed to men having sex with men, over 70% of HIV infections worldwide are now estimated to occur through sex between women and men. In Men at Risk, Shari L. Dworkin argues that the centrality of heterosexual relationship dynamics to the transmission of HIV means that both women and men need to be taken into account in gender-specific HIV/AIDS prevention interventions. She looks at the costs of masculinity that shape men's HIV risks, such as their initiation of sex and their increased status from sex with multiple partners.Engaging with the common paradigm in HIV research that portrays only womenand not heterosexually active menas being vulnerable to HIV, Dworkin examines the gaps in public health knowledge that result in substandard treatment for HIV transmission and infection among heterosexual men both domestically aTrade ReviewMen at Risk offers an incisive critique of several decades of HIV prevention programming that has largely rendered heterosexually-active men invisible to public health knowledge and practice.It wrestles candidly with the many conceptual, methodological, and political dilemmas of feminist work on masculinities.But, it also points to important successes and opportunities in gender-transformative and intersectional work with men and boys. Dworkins account of this terrain is thoroughgoing and expert, but also forceful and politically clear-eyed. -- Christopher J. Colvin,Senior Researcher in HIV/AIDS at the University of Cape Town, South AfricaA timely and evocative contribution to the growing literature globally on masculinity and HIV prevention. With a focus firmly on heterosexual mens practices and experiences, Men at Risk fills a major gap.A & must read for scholars of gender and sexuality in relation to HIV, and a valuable resource to inspire policy makers and program developers. -- Peter Aggleton,author of Education, Vulnerability, and HIV/AIDS
£70.30
University of Toronto Press Seeing Red
Book SynopsisFeaturing the diverse experiences of people living with HIV, Seeing Red highlights various perspectives from academics, activists, and community workers who think ahead to the new and complex challenges associated with the condition.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Michael Orsini, Suzanne Hindmarch & Marilou Gagnon Part 1. Systems Chapter 1. The Rights Response is (Still) Required: Preserving the Human Rights Core of HIV Exceptionalism in pursuing the End of AIDS Richard Elliott Chapter 2. HIV Criminalization as “Risk Management”: On the Importance of Structural Stigma Marilou Gagnon & Christine Vézina Chapter 3. Institutionalizing Risk in the “daddy-state”: Carceral Spaces as HIV Risk Environments Jennifer M. Kilty Chapter 4. We Are Still Sick but We Look Cured! The Iatrogenic Effects of HIV Public Health Policy on HIV Positive Gay Men Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco Part 2. Services Chapter 5. Aging Without A Net: Policy Barriers Facing Older Adults Living With HIV in Canada Kate Murzin & Charles Furlotte Chapter 6. Evaluation Policy at AIDS Service Organizations: Managing Multiple Accountabilities Nicole Greenspan Chapter 7. Living and Aging with HIV: Tiptoeing through a Pan-Canadian Policy Maze Ron Rosenes Chapter 8. Charting the Course: Exploring HIV, Employment and Income Security through an Episodic Disability Lens Wendy Porch & Tammy C. Yates Part 3. Populations Chapter 9. Governing Participation: A Critical Analysis of International and Canadian Texts Promoting the Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV & AIDS Alex McClelland, Adrian Guta & Nicole Greenspan Chapter 10. What a Mess! Viewing Trans Women Living with HIV as Managers of Policy Mess Natalie Duchesne Chapter 11. “Good Medicine”: Decolonizing HIV Policy for Indigenous Women in Canada Tracey Prentice, Doris Peltier, Elizabeth Benson, Kerrigan Johnson, Kecia Larkin, Krista Shore & Renée Masching Chapter 12. Do it in a Good Way: Recommendations for Research and Policy in Indigenous Communities Aging with HIV/AIDS Chelsea Gabel, Randy Jackson & Chaneesa Ryan Chapter 13. On the Experience of Pregnancy: Stories of HIV-Positive Refugee Women in Canada Teresa Chulach, Marilou Gagnon & Dave Holmes Chapter 14. HIV and Hepatitis C Co-Infection: Pathways to Care, Pathways to Advocacy: A Conversation with Colleen Price Colleen Price Chapter 15. AIDS Activism: Remembering Resistance Versus Socially Organized Forgetting Gary Kinsman Conclusion Suzanne Hindmarch, Michael Orsini & Marilou Gagnon
£62.05
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Slow Plague: A Geography of the AIDS Pandemic
Book SynopsisBased on research by a leading geographer and specialist in diffusion theory, The Slow Plague discloses the geographic dimension of the AIDS pandemic. It provides a lucid description of the HIV, its origins, and the extent to which it has now permeated our lives. The author shows how the virus jumps from city to city, creating regional epicenters from which it spreads into surrounding areas. Four case studies at different geographic scales demonstrate the devastating effects of the disease. In Africa the situation is catastrophic, in Thailand it is rapidly becoming so. In the US there are over 300,000 people with AIDS and more than one million infected by the HIV. The relationships between poverty, drugs and HIV infection are brought out poignantly in a chapter about the Bronx. The author argues that a real understanding of AIDS has been hampered by conscious or unconscious beliefs that those affected are, and will continue to be, confined to specific minority groups and to parts of the Third World. He shows that such views have led to fundamental misconceptions about the pattern of the spread of the disease and about those who will be most at risk, now and in the immediate future.Trade Review"Stimulating, with sharp and pungent writing. The author's wide-ranging observations and speculations are full of energy and passion." Nature "The Slow Plague is a clearly written introduction to geographical understanding in HIV/Aids research." Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases "This fascinating book should attract a wide readership." Applied Geography "The book would work nicely in an undergraduate geography or interdisciplinary topics course. It would certainly generate enough material to keep lively discussions going throughout the semester and provide every student with something to pursue in more detail for a course paper." Journal of Regional Science "This makes reading this alarming book a truly fascinating experience. I use the term 'alarming' because the book is about a catastrophic pandemic which, according to World Health Organization estimates, may claim 40 million lives world-wide by the year 2000." "Gould is exceptionally good at presenting the 'forest' and never letting the reader get lost in the 'trees'." "This book would work nicely in an undergraduate geography or interdisciplinary topics course. It would certainly generate enough material to keep lively discussions going throughout the semester and provide every student with something to pursue in more detail for a course paper." Journal of Regional Science "The Slow Plague is the most interesting and provocative publication by an academic that I can recall reading. Without any mincing of words, Gould lifts the lid on HIV, on bumbling bureaucracies and narrow-minded investigators." Australian Geographical StudiesTable of ContentsList of maps and figures. Preface: Why a geographer writes about AIDS. Acknowledgements: Intellectual Antennae. Prologue: New Plagues for Old: The Horseman Rides Again. 1. The Killer: HIV and What it does. 2. The Origins of HIV: Closing an Open Question?. 3. The Thin Tendrils of Effects. 4. Sex on a Set: A Backcloth for Disaster. 5. Transmission Break: The Geography of the Condom. 6. How Things Spread: Hierarchical Jumps and Geographic Oozings. 7. Africa: A Continent in Catastrophe. 8. Thailand: How to Optimize an Epidemic. 9. America: Leaks in the System. 10. The Bronx: Poverty, Crack and HIV. 11. The Response: How Many Bureaucrats can Dance on the Head of a Pin?. 12. Time but no Space: the Failure of a Paradigm. 13. The Geography in Confidentiality. 14. Education and Planning: Predicting the Next Maps. 15. Herd Immunity: Riding the Coattails of the HIV. 16. Epilogue: Old Plagues for New. Changing worlds, changing genres: a bibliographic essay. Index.
£36.05
Temple University Press,U.S. AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the
Book SynopsisAIDS Alibis tackles the cultural landscape upon which AIDS, often accompanied by poverty, drug addiction, and crime, proliferates on a global scale. Stephanie Kane layers stories of individuals and events -- from Chicago to Belize City, to cyberspace -- to illustrate the paths of HIV infection and the effects of environment, government intervention, and social mores. Linking ordinary yet kindred lives in communities around the globe, Kane challenges the assumptions underlying the use of police and courts to solve health problems. The stories reveal the dynamics that determine how the policy decisions of white-collar health care professionals actually play out in real life. By focusing on life-changing social problems, the narratives highlight the contradictions between public health and criminal law. Look at how HIV has transformed our social consciousness, from intimate touch to institutional outreach. But, Kane argues, these changes are dwarfed by the United States's refusal to stop the war on drugs, in effect misdirecting resources and awareness. AIDS Alibis combines empirical and interpretive methods in a path-breaking attempt to recognize the extent to which coercive institutional practices are implicated in HIV transmission patterns. Kane shows how th e virus feeds on the politics of inequality and indifference, even as it exploits the human need for intimacy and release.Trade Review"AIDS Alibis represents contemporary engaged anthropology at its best. Drawing upon intensive research in Belize and Chicago...each ethnographically focused chapter is powerful in its own right. Jointly they make for an innovative, deeply reasoned, and powerful critique of our own understandings-social, legal, medical, ethical-and help us move towards consequential reconsiderations." -Don Brenneis, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz "This wise and affecting work reveals the limitations of current public health and criminal justice approaches to the AIDS pandemic. It also teaches us how to do fieldwork. The passionate rendering of 'stories that fall between the prescribed categories of analysis' tells us more about AIDS than any work I have yet encountered." -Shirley Lindenbaum, Anthropology, Graduate Center, City University of New York "[This book] unveils the political unconscious of AIDS and reveals AIDS as a 'master signifier' circulating and mutating throughout different discursive formations. Kane juxtaposes media sources, conversations, dialogues, oral tales, statistics and official accounts. This innovative ethnography not only captures the elusive cultural meanings of AIDS, it is a first-rate example of how anthropologists can study 'fluid' phenomena that have no well-defined boundaries, phenomena that flow effortlessly across national, ethnic, and linguistic barriers, and in the process, transform themselves and their hosts." -Stephen A. Tyler, Herb S. Autrey Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, Rice University "[This book] unveils the political unconscious of AIDS and reveals AIDS as a 'master signifier' circulating and mutating throughout different discursive formations. Kane juxtaposes media sources, conversations, dialogues, oral tales, statistics and official accounts. This innovative ethnography not only captures the elusive cultural meanings of AIDS, it is a first-rate example of how anthropologists can study 'fluid' phenomena that have no well-defined boundaries, phenomena that flow effortlessly across national, ethnic, and linguistic barriers, and in the process, transform themselves and their hosts." -Stephen A. Tyler, Herb S. Autrey Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, Rice University "Stephanie Kane performs a timely and passionate ethnographic drama of misguided drug wars, risky bodily practices, panicky cultural logic, and the political unconscious of AIDS... a subtle, poetic and activist account of the ritual intersection between dangerous institutional forces and the everyday enactment of sex, labor, pleasure, and crime." -Stephen Pfohl, Sociology, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments 1 Introduction Part I. Work 2 Prostitution North 3 Folk Surveillance 4 Prostitution South Part II. Escape 5 Death Rite 6 Losing It 7 Illusion and Control 8 Easter in Livingston Part III. Crime 9 Desperate 10 The Positively Arrogant Mishap 11 Outtakes 12 Everything I Have Is Yours Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists HIV Pharmacotherapy
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James Currey Breaking the Silence: South African
Book SynopsisExamines the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic through creative texts and the impact of these representations in determining which issues receive attention and how public understanding of the virus is shaped. South Africa is one of the countries in the world most affected by HIV/AIDS, and yet, until recently, the epidemic was barely visible in South African literature. Much can be gained from approaching the South African epidemic through creative texts such as novels, photographs, films, cartoons and murals because they produce and circulate meanings of HIV/AIDS and its various facets such as its 'origin', 'transmission routes' and 'physical manifestations'. Other aspects explored are the denial of HIV/AIDS, its stigmatisation, discriminatory practices, modes of disclosure, access to anti-retroviral medication, as well as the role of alternative treatment. Creative texts, which are open to different and possibly contradictory readings, can serve as a starting point to increase the cultural visibility of the virus and to challenge dominant ideas about the epidemic. The cultural constructions of HIV/AIDS should be carefully examined because the meanings are pervasive and have very 'real' consequences: they play a powerful role both in determining which issues receive attention and in shaping public understanding of the virus. Ellen Grünkemeier is a lecturer and researcher in the English Department at Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany. Her publications include two co-edited volumes on postcolonial literatures and cultures, Listening to Africa. Anglophone African Literatures and Cultures (2012), and Postcolonial Studies across the Disciplines (ASNEL Papers 19, forthcoming).Trade ReviewDelves into some of the most important sources of intellectual and public contestation regarding HIV. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *Grünkemeier makes a strong case that South African literary genres as well as other creative modes have begun to break the culture of silence surrounding HIV/AIDS by representing that silence and the opaque communications surrounding the epidemic. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Setting the Agenda Mapping the Terrain: The South African HIV/AIDS Epidemic HIV/AIDS as a Taboo Topic: A Culture of Silence Imagery Myths Literary Genres Afterword: Meanings Matter
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Global Governance of HIV/AIDS: Intellectual
Book SynopsisHIV/AIDS remains a major global health problem, despite the progress made in its prevention and treatment. Addressing this problem is not only a matter of more and better drugs, they need to be widely accessible and be affordable to the poor. This book makes, with a much welcomed interdisciplinary approach, an excellent contribution to understanding how the intellectual property regime can influence health policies and the lives of millions of people affected by the disease. The analysis provided by the various authors that contributed to this book will be of relevance not only to those working in the area of HIV/AIDS, but to those more broadly interested in public health governance and the role of intellectual property rights.'- Carlos Correa, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina'This is an important, innovative and, at times, controversial collection. Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection will have appeal to those concerned with the global injustice in the context of HIV/AIDS. Investigating the legal, political and economic determinants of access to essential medicines, this is thought provoking collection which will resonate with many in both the academic and public policy community.'- Bryan Mercurio, The Chinese University of Hong KongThis important book brings together leading scholars from multiple disciplines, including intellectual property, human rights, public health, and development studies, as well as activists to critically reflect on the global health governance regime.The Global Governance of HIV/AIDS explores the implications of high international intellectual property standards for access to essential medicines in developing countries. With a focus on HIV/AIDS governance, the volume provides a timely analysis of the international legal and political landscape, the relationship between human rights and intellectual property, and emerging issues in global health policy. It concludes with concrete strategies on how to improve access to HIV/AIDS medicines.This interdisciplinary, global, and up-to-date book will strongly appeal to academics in law, international relations, health policy and public policy, as well as students, policymakers and activists.Contributors include: F.M. Abbott, O. Aginam, T. Amin, L. Biron, A. Denburg, G.E. Evans, J. Harrington, J. Harrison, K. Lee, K.C. Shadlen, P.K. YuTrade Review‘The different chapters are presented in a coherent manner and are all characterized by a precise yet easy to understand language that makes the book an enjoyable and accessible read for researchers and students alike.’ -- Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property‘HIV/AIDS remains a major global health problem, despite the progress made in its prevention and treatment. Addressing this problem is not only a matter of more and better drugs, they need to be widely accessible and be affordable to the poor. This book makes, with a much welcomed interdisciplinary approach, an excellent contribution to understanding how the intellectual property regime can influence health policies and the lives of millions of people affected by the disease. The analysis provided by the various authors that contributed to this book will be of relevance not only to those working in the area of HIV/AIDS, but to those more broadly interested in public health governance and the role of intellectual property rights.’ -- Carlos Correa, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina‘This is an important, innovative and, at times, controversial collection. Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection will have appeal to those concerned with the global injustice in the context of HIV/AIDS. Investigating the legal, political and economic determinants of access to essential medicines, this is a thought provoking collection which will resonate with many in both the academic and public policy community.’ -- Bryan Mercurio, The Chinese University of Hong KongTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Obijiofor Aginam and John Harrington 2. Communitarian Globalism and Disease: A Normative Orientation for Global Health Governance Obijiofor Aginam 3. Is AIDS Treatment Sustainable? Kenneth C. Shadlen 4. Access to Paediatric Medicines: The Global Political Economy of Drug Production and Supply for Children in the Developing World Avram Denburg and Kelley Lee 5. Trade Agreements, Intellectual Property and Access to Essential Medicines: What Future Role for the Right to Health? James Harrison 6. Re-visiting the Patents and Access to Medicines Dichotomy: An Evaluation of TRIPs Implementation and Public Health Safeguards in Developing Countries Tahir Amin 7. Seizure of Generic Pharmaceuticals in Transit Based on Allegations of Patent Infringement: A Threat to International Trade, Development and Public Welfare Frederick M. Abbott 8. Patent Licensing Strategies for the Research and Development of Pharmaceuticals in Developing Countries Gail E. Evans 9. Increasing Access through Incentives for Innovation: The Health Impact Fund Laura Biron 10. Building IPC4D to Promote Access to Essential Medicines Peter K. Yu 11. The Global Governance of HIV/AIDS and the Rugged Road Ahead: An Epilogue Peter K. Yu Appendices Index
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