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  • AIDS and Power

    Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet

    par Alex de Waal ...
    Collections series African Arguments
    One in six adults in sub-Saharan Africa will die in their prime of AIDS. It is a stunning cataclysm, plunging life expectancy to pre-modern levels and orphaning millions of children. Yet political trauma does not grip Africa. People living with AIDS are not rioting in the streets or overthrowing governments. In fact, democratic governance is spreading. Contrary to fearful predictions, the social ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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  • There is No Me Without You

    One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children

    par Melissa Fay Greene ...
    Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a humanface on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one womanworking to save her country's children.After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian woman of modest means, opened her home to some of the thousands of children in Addis Ababa who have been left as orphans. There Is No Me Without You is ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Epic Measures

    One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.

    par Jeremy N. Smith ...
    Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time—the groundbreaking program to answer the most essential question for humanity: how do we live and die?—and the visionary mastermind behind it.Medical doctor and economist Christopher Murray began the Global Burden of Disease studies to gain a truer understanding of how we live and how we die. ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Forgiven

    par Myriam Arthur ...
    A compelling and heart-wrenching drama of one mother’s quest to save her son, and the unexpected and surprising lengths a person can be driven to in the name of love. Story of a Canadian family residing in Bolivia at the time; set in Bolivian society in 1985, Forgiven centres on the story of Myriam Arthur, whose son, just back from university in California, shares shattering news: he thinks he may ... En savoir plus

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Joy of Smoking: The Light-Hearted Look at Lighting Up

    par Sue Carroll & Sue Brealy ...
    Tired of being told to quit, put it out, stand outside, have some consideration, think about your health ...? The list of complaints against smokers would take much longer than a fag break to read out, and many of us (even those who don't smoke) have had just about enough of it! The passive whingeing we endure from the self-righteous is enough to have anyone gasping for another ciggie! Leaping to ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Piecing the Puzzle

    The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa

    par Larry Krotz ...
    In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization. Ronald had just completed a successful project that cured a chancroid (genital ulcer) epidemic in Winnipeg and Nsanze asked him to come to Kenya to help with Kenya’s “sexual diseases problem.” That ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Young People's Lives and Sexual Relationships in Rural Africa

    Findings from a Large Qualitative Study in Tanzania

    par Mary Louisa Plummer, Daniel Wight ...
    New infections with HIV remain an urgent problem among young people in Africa, but many young Africans pursue sexual relationships with little thought about the epidemic. This book examines young people's sexual relationships in a region typical of rural sub-Saharan Africa and investigates why the risk of HIV infection generally was not a salient concern for them. It is based on an extraordinarily ... En savoir plus

    $78.99 CAD

  • Workable Sisterhood

    The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $49.99 CAD

  • Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

    par Thomas De Quincey ...
    Collections series Oxford World's Classics
    'I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug use and abuse that has continued from his day to ours. In the Confessions De Quincey invents recreational drug taking, but he also ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Endangered Self

    Identity and Social Risk

    par Gill Green, Elisa Sobo ...
    To date, the majority of HIV/AIDS research has concentrated on education and prevention for those with a seronegative status, while studies of HIV positive individuals have been concerned with their potential to infect others. The Endangered Self however, focuses on how the discovery of an HIV positive status affects the individual's sense of identity, on the experience of living with HIV and its ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD

  • Encyclopedic Dictionary of AIDS-Related Terminology

    par Jeffrey T Huber, Mary L Gillaspy ...
    Make sense out of confusing HIV/AIDS terminology!Finally, here is a reference work that contains clear and useful definitions of words, phrases, and medical terms associated with HIV/AIDS! The Encyclopedic Dictionary of AIDS-Related Terminology is an easy-to-understand guide to all of the mainstream jargon surrounding this epidemic. This user-friendly volume brings you a number of essential ... En savoir plus

    $60.99 CAD

  • Comprehensive Care for HIV/AIDS

    Community-Based Strategies

    par Teresa L. Scheid ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
    A comprehensive health care system consists of services that are coordinated and integrated along the full continuum of care. For HIV patients, this includes physical health care, infectious disease management, crisis care, mental health care, substance abuse counseling, and social support services including housing, transportation, subsistence, and supports for dealing with multiple sources of ... En savoir plus

    $104.99 CAD