Sexually transmitted infections Books

Book SynopsisThis comprehensive yet concise Handbook covers all aspects of sexual health, contraception and HIV medicine. All content has been updated from the second edition, with some additional chapters to reflect changes in the socio-political climate, clinical practice, and evidence-based medicine.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent textbook coverage of the discipline and I suspect that for primary care healthcare professionals, this would probably be their only port of call for most common and less common standard scenarios. * Dr Harry Brown MBChB, Glycosmedia *Table of Contents1: The genitourinary medicine service 2: Ethical, medico-legal and sociocultural issues 3: Gender diversity 4: The standard clinic process and sexual health in primary care 5: Investigations and microscopy 6: Specific genitourinary situations 7: Syphilis 8: Gonorrhoea 9: Chlamydia 10: Non-gonococcal urethritis and mucopurulent cervicitis 11: Pelvic inflammatory disease 12: Prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome in men 13: Epididymo-orchitis 14: Sexually acquired reactive arthritis 15: Bacterial vaginosis and anaerobic balanitis 16: Trichomoniasis 17: Genital candidiasis 18: Tropical genital and sexually acquired infections 19: Endemic treponematoses 20: Proctocolitis and enteric sexually acquired infections 21: Urinary tract infection 22: Anogenital herpes 23: Anogenital warts 24: Molluscum contagiosum 25: Sexually acquired viral hepatitis 26: Other viruses 27: Scabies 28: Pediculosis pubis 29: Anogenital dermatoses 30: Cervical neoplasia 31: Vulval pain 32: Streptococcal and staphylococcal infections 33: Genital anomalies 34: Contraception including contraception for women living with HIV 35: Psychological aspects and sexual problems 36: HIV: prevention 37: HIV: introduction and epidemiology 38: Pathogenesis of HIV 39: Staging, classification, and natural history of HIV disease 40: HIV: diagnosis and assessment 41: HIV: primary infection 42: HIV: gastrointestinal disorders 43: HIV: hepatitis virus co-infection 44: HIV: disorders of the eye 45: HIV: respiratory disorders 46: HIV: neurological disorders 47: HIV: dermatological disorders 48: HIV: pyrexia of unknown origin 49: HIV: endocrine and metabolic disorders 50: HIV: renal disorders 51: HIV: cardiovascular disorders 52: HIV: musculoskeletal disorders 53: HIV: reticulo-endothelial disorders 54: HIV: malignancies 55: HIV: management 56: HIV: pregnancy 57: HIV: travel

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Book SynopsisThe most common sexually transmitted infection, HPV causes cancers of the cervix, vulva, vagina, penis, and anus. When the HPV vaccine first came to the market in 2006, it immediately grabbed attention. This book explores the national arguments and global disputes surrounding the hotly controversial HPV vaccine.Trade ReviewWell written and well researched. It is a valuable addition to the fields of public health, public policy, and pharmaceutical marketing. Choice 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. A Cancer Vaccine for Girls? HPV, Sexuality, and the New Politics of PreventionVaccine Time LinesPart I: The Known and the Unknown: Vaccination Decisions amid Risk and UncertaintyChapter 1. The Coercive Hand, the Benefi cent Hand: What the History of Compulsory Vaccination Can Tell Us about HPV Vaccine MandatesChapter 2. Gardasil: A Vaccine against Cancer and a Drug to Reduce RiskChapter 3. HPV Vaccination Campaigns: Masking Uncertainty, Erasing ComplexityChapter 4. The Great Undiscussable: Anal Cancer, HPV, and Gay Men's HealthChapter 5. Cervical Cancer, HIV, and the HPV Vaccine in BotswanaPart II: Girls at the Center of the Storm: Marketing and Managing Gendered RiskChapter 6. Safeguarding Girls: Morality, Risk, and ActivismChapter 7. Producing and Protecting Risky GirlhoodsChapter 8. Re- Presenting Choice: Tune in HPVPart III: Focus on the Family: Parents Assessing Morality, Risk, and Opting OutChapter 9. Parenting and Prevention: Views of HPV Vaccines among Parents Challenging Childhood ImmunizationsChapter 10. Decision Psychology and the HPV VaccineChapter 11. Nonmedical Exemptions to Mandatory Vaccination: Personal Belief, Public Policy, and the Ethics of RefusalChapter 12. Sex, Science, and the Politics of Biomedicine: Gardasil in Comparative PerspectivePart IV: In Search of Good Government: Eu rope, Africa, and America at the Crossroads of Cancer PreventionChapter 13. Vaccination as Governance: HPV Skepticism in the United States and Africa, and the North- South DivideChapter 14. Public Discourses and Policymaking: The HPV Vaccination from the Europe an PerspectiveChapter 15. HPV Vaccination in Context: A View from FranceNotes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisMultidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of infertility and the "historic" STIs--gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis--producing surprising new insights in studies from across the globe and spanning millennia. A multidisciplinary group of prominent scholars investigates the historical relationship between sexually transmitted infections and infertility. Untreated gonorrhea and chlamydia cause infertility in a proportion of women and men. Unlike the much-feared venereal disease of syphilis--"the pox"--gonorrhea and chlamydia are often symptomless, leaving victims unaware of the threat to their fertility. Science did not unmask the causal microorganisms until thelate nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their effects on fertility in human history remain mysterious. This is the first volume to address the subject across more than two thousand years of human history. Following asynoptic editorial introduction, part 1 explores the enigmas of evidence from ancient and early modern medical sources. Part 2 addresses fundamental questions about when exactly these diseases first became human afflictions, withnew contributions from bioarcheology, genomics, and the history of medicine, producing surprising new insights. Part 3 presents studies of infertility and its sociocultural consequences in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africa, Oceania, and Australia. Part 4 examines the quite different ways the infertility threat from STIs was perceived--by scientists, the public, and government--in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germany, France, and Britain, concluding with a pioneering empirical estimate of the infertility impact in Britain. Simon Szreter is Professor of History and Public Policy, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Hidden Affliction: Sexually-Transmitted Infections and Infertility in History - Simon Szreter PART 1. THE HIDDEN PITFALLS IN THE EARLY DOCUMENTARY RECORD (The Wrong Kind of) Gonorrhea in Antiquity - Rebecca Flemming "Poxt and Clapt Together": Sexual Misbehavior in Early Modern Cases of Venereal Disease - Olivia Weisser PART 2. THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND THE HISTORY OF THE STI MICRO-ORGANISMS Bioarcheological Contributions to Understanding the History of Treponemal Disease - Charlotte Roberts Bioarcheological Contributions to Understanding the History of Treponemal Disease - Rebecca Redfern A Long-Standing Evolutionary History between Chlamydia trachomatis and Humans: Visible, Ocular and Invisible, Genital Variants - Ian N. Clarke A Long-Standing Evolutionary History between Chlamydia trachomatis and Humans: Visible, Ocular and Invisible, Genital Variants - Hugh R. Taylor Chlamydia: A Disease Without A History - Michael Worboys PART 3. POPULATION DECLINE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH Population Decline in Island Melanesia: Aphrodisian Cultural Practices, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Low Fertility - Tim Bayliss-Smith Community Infertility in Papua New Guinea: Uncovering the Role of Gonorrhea - Roy F. Scragg Fertility, STIs and Sexual Behaviour in Early and Mid-Twentieth Century East Africa - Shane Doyle "A Wise Provision of Nature for the Prevention of Too Many Children": Evidence from the Australian Colonies - Janet McCalman "A Wise Provision of Nature for the Prevention of Too Many Children": Evidence from the Australian Colonies - Rebecca Kippen PART 4. INFERTILITY AND THE SPECTRE OF VENEREAL DISEASES IN MODERN EUROPE "The Archenemy of Fertility": Gonorrhea and Infertility, Germany 1870-1935 - Christina Benninghaus Fecundity in a World of Scourges: Venereal Diseases, Criminal Abortion and Acquired Infertility in France c.1880-1950 - Fabrice Cahen Fecundity in a World of Scourges: Venereal Diseases, Criminal Abortion and Acquired Infertility in France c.1880-1950 - Adrien Minard Revealing the Hidden Affliction: How Much Infertility Was Due to Venereal Disease in England and Wales on the Eve of the Great War? - Simon Szreter Revealing the Hidden Affliction: How Much Infertility Was Due to Venereal Disease in England and Wales on the Eve of the Great War? - Kevin Schürer List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisExpedited partner therapy (EPT) is the practice of treating the sex partners of persons with sexually transmitted diseases without an intervening medical evaluation or professional prevention counselling. The usual implementation of EPT is through patient-delivered partner therapy (PDPT), although other methods may be employed. The available literature and selected unpublished studies were systematically reviewed, and this book provides background for the development of guidance on use of EPT as an option for partner management for selected STDs and patients. This is an edited, excerpted and augmented edition of a CDC publication.

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Book SynopsisSexually transmitted infections (STIs) represent a global problem that has an impact on the reproductive and sexual health worldwide. The most common causative agents of the STIs are Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria (N.) gonorrhoea, Treponema pallidum and Trichomonas vaginalis. The World Health Organization estimated that these four main curable STIs cause approximately 498.9 million new cases worldwide in 2008. STIs can lead to serious consequences including health complications, chronic disease and high morbidity. Moreover, the economic costs associated with treatment of these diseases are immense. Furthermore, the resistance to antibiotics, in particular in N. gonorrhoea, has emerged in recent years. For these reasons, STIs represent a serious current public health problem. This book discusses several STI''s including gonorrhoea, hepatitis C, and hepatitis B.

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