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Community Interventions and AIDS

Edited by Edison J. Trickett, Willo Pequegnat ...

As news headlines report staggering numbers of people infected with HIV or AIDS across the globe and as stereotypes of typical AIDS patients become less and less specific to particular sexual orientations and ethnic backgrounds, the AIDS pandemic shows little sign of relenting. AIDS crosses geopolitical and social barriers, and social and behavioral scientists are confronted with the new challenge ... Read more

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As news headlines report staggering numbers of people infected with HIV or AIDS across the globe and as stereotypes of typical AIDS patients become less and less specific to particular sexual orientations and ethnic backgrounds, the AIDS pandemic shows little sign of relenting. AIDS crosses geopolitical and social barriers, and social and behavioral scientists are confronted with the new challenge
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Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept

Understanding Connections among Culture, Community, and Health

by John Andazola, Courtney Andrews, Melinda Davis, Jaelyn deMaría, Kristen Dillon, Alicia Edwards, Sarah Gopman, Emily Haozous, Deja Knight, Paul Lindberg, Erik Lujan, Andrew Marcum, Jeff Maskovsky, David Rakel, Roberta Rael, Leigh Rauk, Jean Schensul, Claire Snell-Rood, Lesley Jo Weaver, Nicole Yonke, C. Estela Vasquez Guzman, Rodney C. Haring, Anthony Ryan Hatch, Russell L. Holman, Elise Trott Jaramillo, Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, Kara L. McKinney, Andrea Grimes Parker, Thomas N. Scharmen, Nancy E. Schoenberg, Mary Alice Scott, Andrew L. Sussman, Edison J. Trickett, Steven P. Verney, Cathleen E. Willging, Gale G. Hannigan, Emily Mendenhall ...

Series series Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept highlights the ways that culture and community influence concepts of wellness, the experience of well-being, and health outcomes. This book includes both theoretical conceptualizations and practice-based explorations from a multidisciplinary group of contributors, including distinguished, widely celebrated senior experts as well as emerging voices in the ... Read more

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Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept highlights the ways that culture and community influence concepts of wellness, the experience of well-being, and health outcomes. This book includes both theoretical conceptualizations and practice-based explorations from a multidisciplinary group of contributors, including distinguished, widely celebrated senior experts as well as emerging voices in the
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I Have Something to Tell You

A Memoir

by Regan Hofmann ...

For ten years, Regan Hofmann lived a double life. To the world, she was a woman from Princeton who went to prep school, summered in the Hamptons and rode Thoroughbred horses. She had a great job, a loving family and friends and looks that made men turn their heads. From the outside, she seemed to have it all. On the inside, though, coursing through her veins and weighing heavily on her mind, was ... Read more

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For ten years, Regan Hofmann lived a double life. To the world, she was a woman from Princeton who went to prep school, summered in the Hamptons and rode Thoroughbred horses. She had a great job, a loving family and friends and looks that made men turn their heads. From the outside, she seemed to have it all. On the inside, though, coursing through her veins and weighing heavily on her mind, was
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Cured

How the Berlin Patients Defeated HIV and Forever Changed Medical Science

by Nathalia Holt ...

“Nathalia Holt presents a thorough account of the research that provides scientists with hope that a cure will one day be achievable... and her empathy shines through in her prose. This is as important a social history as it is a medical document.”—The Daily BeastTwo patients—each known in medical history as the Berlin Patient—were cured of the HIV virus. The two patients’ disparate cures came ... Read more

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“Nathalia Holt presents a thorough account of the research that provides scientists with hope that a cure will one day be achievable... and her empathy shines through in her prose. This is as important a social history as it is a medical document.”—The Daily BeastTwo patients—each known in medical history as the Berlin Patient—were cured of the HIV virus. The two patients’ disparate cures came
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Scrambling for Africa

AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science

by Johanna Tayloe Crane ...

Series series Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
Anthropologist Crane (Univ. of Washington-Bothell) presents a solidly documented and well-reasoned discussion of AIDS and its far-reaching effects. An excellent overview deals with resistance to treatment.. Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, professionals.―ChoiceA work of outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship, Scrambling for Africa will be of interest to audiences in anthropology, ... Read more

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Anthropologist Crane (Univ. of Washington-Bothell) presents a solidly documented and well-reasoned discussion of AIDS and its far-reaching effects. An excellent overview deals with resistance to treatment.. Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, professionals.―ChoiceA work of outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship, Scrambling for Africa will be of interest to audiences in anthropology,
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Someone Was Here

Profiles in the AIDS Epidemic

by George Whitmore ...

Three powerful profiles of men and women whose lives were changed forever by the AIDS epidemic"Some of my reasons for wanting to write about AIDS were altruistic, others selfish. AIDS was decimating the community around me; there was a need to bear witness. AIDS had turned me and others like me into walking time bombs; there was a need to strike back, not just wait to die. What I didn't fully ... Read more

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Three powerful profiles of men and women whose lives were changed forever by the AIDS epidemic"Some of my reasons for wanting to write about AIDS were altruistic, others selfish. AIDS was decimating the community around me; there was a need to bear witness. AIDS had turned me and others like me into walking time bombs; there was a need to strike back, not just wait to die. What I didn't fully
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AIDS Activist

Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community

by Ann Silversides ...

Michael Lynch, the central figure of this book, was a long-time gay activist and a dynamic force in organizing an early response to the AIDS epidemic. Lynch’s prescient articles in The Body Politic spoke to the gay communities of Toronto, New York, and San Francisco. His organizing efforts meant change and hope. AIDS Activist is a crisp and passionate introduction to a wide range of issues. ... Read more

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Michael Lynch, the central figure of this book, was a long-time gay activist and a dynamic force in organizing an early response to the AIDS epidemic. Lynch’s prescient articles in The Body Politic spoke to the gay communities of Toronto, New York, and San Francisco. His organizing efforts meant change and hope. AIDS Activist is a crisp and passionate introduction to a wide range of issues.
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Workable Sisterhood

The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS

by Michele Tracy Berger ...

Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade. What makes their experience with the HIV/AIDS virus and their political participation different from their counterparts of people with HIV? Michele Tracy Berger argues that it is the influence of a phenomenon she labels ... Read more

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Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade. What makes their experience with the HIV/AIDS virus and their political participation different from their counterparts of people with HIV? Michele Tracy Berger argues that it is the influence of a phenomenon she labels
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Control AIDS Thru Homoeopathy

by Dr R K Kapoor ...

A case of AIDS is a war, a fierce battle between HIV and the treating physician, a battle that he never dreamt of, and one that he never witnessed.This is manifested by the fact that though the Founder of Homoeopathy Dr. Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann wrote six volumes on Organon of Medicine and made various changes yet he did not give instructions to withdraw any of the volume or its ... Read more

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A case of AIDS is a war, a fierce battle between HIV and the treating physician, a battle that he never dreamt of, and one that he never witnessed.This is manifested by the fact that though the Founder of Homoeopathy Dr. Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann wrote six volumes on Organon of Medicine and made various changes yet he did not give instructions to withdraw any of the volume or its
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AIDS Doctors

Voices from the Epidemic: An Oral History

by Ronald Bayer, Gerald M. Oppenheimer ...

Today, AIDS has been indelibly etched in our consciousness. Yet it was less than twenty years ago that doctors confronted a sudden avalanche of strange, inexplicable, seemingly untreatable conditions that signaled the arrival of a devastating new disease. Bewildered, unprepared, and pushed to the limit of their diagnostic abilities, a select group of courageous physicians nevertheless persevered. ... Read more

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Today, AIDS has been indelibly etched in our consciousness. Yet it was less than twenty years ago that doctors confronted a sudden avalanche of strange, inexplicable, seemingly untreatable conditions that signaled the arrival of a devastating new disease. Bewildered, unprepared, and pushed to the limit of their diagnostic abilities, a select group of courageous physicians nevertheless persevered.
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Models of Protection Against HIV/SIV

Models of Protection Against HIV/SIV

Edited by Gianfranco Pancino, Guido Silvestri, Keith Fowke ...

A successful vaccine for the prevention and/or immunotherapy against HIV/AIDS is one of the prominent challenges of the 21st century. To date, all human vaccine trials against this virus/disease have resulted in failure, or at best have shown very low efficacy. The scientific community dealing with HIV/AIDS has unanimously proposed a focus on basic science, with the intention of identifying ... Read more

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A successful vaccine for the prevention and/or immunotherapy against HIV/AIDS is one of the prominent challenges of the 21st century. To date, all human vaccine trials against this virus/disease have resulted in failure, or at best have shown very low efficacy. The scientific community dealing with HIV/AIDS has unanimously proposed a focus on basic science, with the intention of identifying
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If Memory Serves

Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past

by Christopher Castiglia, Christopher Reed ...

The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures of the 1970s in order to ensure a healthy future. But without memory there can be no future, argue Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed in this exploration of the struggle over gay memory that ... Read more

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The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures of the 1970s in order to ensure a healthy future. But without memory there can be no future, argue Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed in this exploration of the struggle over gay memory that
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