TOP MEDICAL BOOKS

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Product DescriptionAt an April 1984 press conference, government researchers announced that the cause of AIDS–the disease then terrifying the nation as if it were a Biblical scourge–was a “retrovirus” called HIV. Many scientists, including two Nobel winners, said it wasn’t possible. But they were quickly drowned out by the ecstatic response from activists, government-funded... Read the story →

Product DescriptionIt’s a mother’s worst nightmare — a wonderful child who becomes an addict/alcoholic. Donna Smith not only lost her young husband to a tragic death, she spent decades trying to help and save her only child, a beautiful daughter, from an addict/alcoholic lifestyle that included prostitution, and stood by helplessly as her daughter contracted one deadly disease after... Read the story →

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Product Description“Africa faces an AIDS orphan crisis that may cause political instability, will certainly reverse development gains, and create overwhelming misery. Emma Guest’s book is a hard hitting, moving but realistic review of what is happening to some orphans in Uganda, South Africa and Zambia. But it also has a message of hope. This book should be read by all concerned with the... Read the story →

Product DescriptionCombining case studies from the wars against AIDS and drugs with an empirical analysis of 15 years of congressional action on these issues, this book shows how Congress targets particular populations for legislative attention. Taking Aim: Target Populations And the Wars on AIDS And Drugs  →

Product DescriptionEvery 14 seconds a Child Headed Household is formed The death of parents from AIDS leaves behind little children, often four or five of them, who desperately want to stay together as a family. In the literature, they call them Child Headed Households. Imagine watching your mother and father slowly die before your eyes, leaving you to bury them and then to raise and care for... Read the story →

Product DescriptionFollowing a decade in which the focus on HIV and AIDS has been on specific social groups, a shift in professional perceptions has resulted in a change in the images of women and HIV/AIDS. “Last Served?” recognizes and analyzes the trend toward more openly acknowledging and planning for women in the pandemic. Rather than enumerating the effects on women of confused or... Read the story →

Product DescriptionNarrative non-fiction. A novel-like collection of compelling conversations between an HIV-positive nurse and other gay men with asymptomatic HIV. This book transports the reader into an urban world where gay men negotiated their sexuality, mortality, and health care between the decades of heady liberation and AIDS. See “inside flap” below. Mortal Men : Living With Asymptomatic... Read the story →

Product DescriptionHospital Time is a memoir about friendship, family, and caregiving in the age of AIDS. Amy Hoffman, a writer, lesbian activist, and former editor of Gay Community News, chronicles with fury and unflinching honesty her experience serving as primary caretaker for her friend and colleague, Mike Riegle, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1992. Hoffman neither idealizes nor... Read the story →

Product DescriptionBy drawing on the latest discoveries in virology, microbiology, and immunology, Mirko Grmek depicts the AIDS epidemic not as an isolated incident but as part of the long, but far from peaceful, coexistence of humans and viruses. History of AIDS  →

Product DescriptionA revealing and at times shocking look inside the United States’ response to one of history’s greatest catastrophes—the global AIDS crisis.Amazon.com ReviewAny writer attempting to tackle the AIDS pandemic faces a demanding task. Now spanning decades and covering the globe, it has claimed a staggering number of lives (more than 40 million people are currently infected... Read the story →

Product Description“This is the most important book about AIDS and gay men since Randy Shilts’s And the Band Played On. And it is far better.” – Martin Duberman, The Nation “Rotello’s ambitious book is the Silent Spring of the AIDS epidemic.” – The Boston Globe Gabriel Rotello, an award-winning gay journalist and long-time AIDS activist, has done in... Read the story →

Product DescriptionNear the end of the century, a new and terrifying disease arrives suddenly from a distant continent. Infecting people through sex, it storms from country to country, defying all drugs and medical knowledge. The deadly disease provokes widespread fear and recrimination; medical authorities call the epidemic “the just rewards of unbridled lust”; a religious leader warns... Read the story →

Product DescriptionInternationally bestselling mystery author Henning Mankell explores the new African tradition of Memory Books, written by parents dying of AIDS for their children.Henning Mankell, internationally famous creator of the bestselling Kurt Wallander mysteries, here offers a nonfiction fable about a heartrending tradition spawned by a major health crisis: the invaluable Memory Book Project,... Read the story →

Product DescriptionA witch’s curse, an imperialist conspiracy, a racist plot—HIV/AIDS is a catastrophic health crisis with complex cultural dimensions. From small villages to the international system, explanations of where it comes from, who gets it, and who dies are tied to political agendas, religious beliefs, and the psychology of devastating grief. Frequently these explanations conflict... Read the story →

Product DescriptionWhy, twenty years into the crisis, are democratic governments performing so poorly in tackling AIDS in Africa? De Waal argues that existing approaches are driven by interests and frameworks that fail to engage with African societies’ resilience and creativity. Already, African communities have confounded some of the worst predictions of disaster. If adequately supported, they... Read the story →

Product DescriptionIn the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to a degree never before seen in medical history. In this astute investigation, Sociologist Steven Epstein shows how the AIDS movement has transformed biomedical research practices. Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of... Read the story →

Product DescriptionWorkable 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... Read the story →

Product Descriptiono the surprise of many, George W. Bush pledged ten billion dollars to combat AIDS in developing nations. Noted specialist Susan Hunter tells the untold story of AIDS in Africa, home to eighty percent of the forty million people in the world currently infected with HIV. She weaves together the history of colonialism in Africa, an insider’s take on the reluctance of drug companies... Read the story →