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  • Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage

    Valuing All Families under the Law

    de Nancy D. Polikoff, Michael Bronski ...
    Series Libro 3 - Queer Ideas/Queer Action
    The debate over marriage equality for same-sex couples rages across the country. Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage boldly moves the discussion forward by focusing on the larger, more fundamental issue of marriage and the law. The root problem, asserts law professor and LGBT rights activist Nancy Polikoff, is that marriage is a bright dividing line between those relationships that legally matter ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Sizwe's Test

    A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic

    de Jonny Steinberg ...
    At the age of twenty-nine, Sizwe Magadla is among the most handsome, well-educated, and richest of the men in his poverty-stricken village. Dr. Hermann Reuter, a son of old South West African stock, wants to show the world that if you provide decent treatment, people will come and get it, no matter their circumstances.Sizwe and Hermann live at the epicenter of the greatest plague of our times, the ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Remedy

    Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care

    Edición de Zena Sharman ...
    Winner, Lambda Literary Award (LGBT Anthology)The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving LGBTQ communities. This anthology is a diverse collection of real-life stories from queer and trans people on their own health-care experiences and challenges, from gay men living with HIV who remember the systemic resistance to their health-care ... Leer más

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  • Hold Tight Gently

    Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS

    de Martin Duberman ...
    In December 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the United States alone, over 318,000 people had already died from AIDS-related complications-among them the singer Michael Callen and the poet Essex Hemphill ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Voices in the Band

    A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful

    de Susan C. Ball ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    "I am an AIDS doctor. When I began that work in 1992, we knew what caused AIDS, how it spread, and how to avoid getting it, but we didn't know how to treat it or how to prevent our patients' seemingly inevitable progression toward death. The stigma that surrounded AIDS patients from the very beginning of the epidemic in the early 1980s continued to be harsh and isolating. People looked askance at ... Leer más

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  • Workable Sisterhood

    The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $31.69 USD

  • AIDS Doctors

    Voices from the Epidemic: An Oral History

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $48.59 USD

  • Real Queer?

    Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus

    de David A. B. Murray ...
    “How do I prove I’m gay?” This is the central question for many refugee claimants who are claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation persecution. But what are the inherent challenges in obtaining this proof? How is the system that assesses this predicated upon homonormative frameworks and nervous borders? What is the impact of gender, race and class? What is an ‘authentic’ sexual or gender ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • If Memory Serves

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Blood on Their Hands

    How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs

    de Donna Shaw, Eric Weinberg ...
    A few short years after HIV first entered the world blood supply in the late 1970s and early 1980s, over half the hemophiliacs in the United States were infected with the virus. But this was far more than just an unforeseeable public health disaster. Negligent doctors, government regulators, and Big Pharma all had a hand in this devastating epidemic.Blood on Their Hands is an inspiring, firsthand ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • The Endangered Self

    Identity and Social Risk

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • The Economics of the Global Response to HIV/AIDS

    de Markus Haacker ...
    The global response to HIV/AIDS has been a major aspect of global health and development policy over the last three decades. The book illustrates the devastating health impacts of the epidemic, with life expectancy in some countries falling to the lowest levels observed anywhere, and the remarkable success of the global HIV/AIDS response in reversing such extreme outcomes. Concerns about the ... Leer más

    $62.09 USD