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Overview
Once thought to be a disease of homosexuals and drug abusers, AIDS has now impacted people across cultures, genders, and sexual orientations. Despite activism, new research, and treatments, many people are still dying from this disease. HIV/AIDS offers a comprehensive, one-volume resource that traces the history of the disease, and discusses prevention, along with current research and treatment. It examines issues such as care giving, health care settings, human rights, pregnancy, and insurance.
The incidence and prognosis for the disease among special populations, as well as their needs and struggles, are covered in detail. These groups include: drug and alcohol abusers, the gay and lesbian community, minority communities, pediatric patients, prisoners, senior citizens, and women. With education the key to both prevention and care of those infected, this volume is an invaluable resource for students and general readers.
Synopsis
The history, symptoms, prevention, and current issues surrounding HIV and AIDS are discussed, along with a focus on special populations struggling with the disease.
"Stolley (sociology and womenÕs and gender studies, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk) and Glass (sociology, Collin County Community College, Texas) contribute a volume on the retroviral disease to the series providing general readers and non-specialist students a basic foundation in topics and issues in medicine and health. After summarizing the current
medical, epidemiological, and public health perspectives on HIV/AIDS, they discuss such issues as policy responses popular culture, adolescents and young adults, drug users, and prisons. A chronology appears in a final section along with texts of some primary documents and a directory of organizations."
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Editorials
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Part of Health and Medical Issues Today reference series that explores the most controversial and prevalent medical maladies in today's society, this title covers the standard history and background of this global pandemic. It also describes rates and modes of contraction, treatment, and new advancements in the field and labors to dispel myths that work against public awareness and undermine understanding of this disease. The book discusses the prevalence of the disease within prisons, among adolescents, and within the gay, lesbian, and bisexual community, among others. Its purpose, however, is to arm the reader with the knowledge needed to understand the disease and its effects and to relay the startling truth that it can affect anyone, regardless of age, race, gender, or sexual orientation. Students will find the comprehensive coverage of HIV/AIDS extremely useful for research or for understanding the issue beyond the introductory level. In addition to the standard information one would expect, the text offers interesting surprises, such as the chapter devoted to HIV/AIDS as it is presented in popular culture and a study of urban myths and their ability to skew society's perception of the disease. Although the text will be accessible for most advanced readers, the medical jargon can be intimidating and the prose dense at times. This definitive guide for one of the most controversial medical issues of today and its extensive reference section will encourage further reading and research. Reviewer: Courtney Huse WikaFrom The Critics
"Stolley (sociology and womenÕs and gender studies, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk) and Glass (sociology, Collin County Community College, Texas) contribute a volume on the retroviral disease to the series providing general readers and non-specialist students a basic foundation in topics and issues in medicine and health. After summarizing the current
medical, epidemiological, and public health perspectives on HIV/AIDS, they discuss such issues as policy responses popular culture, adolescents and young adults, drug users, and prisons. A chronology appears in a final section along with texts of some primary documents and a directory of organizations."
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