5 edition of The AIDS pandemic found in the catalog.
Published
1989
by Gordon and Breach in New York
.
Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | edited by Ralph Bolton. |
| Contributions | Bolton, Ralph, 1939- |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | RA644.A25 A3648 1989 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xi, 117 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 117 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL2193207M |
| ISBN 10 | 2881243746 |
| LC Control Number | 89012077 |
Before AIDS or Ebola, there was the Spanish Flu — Catharine Arnold's gripping narrative, Pandemic , marks the th anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history. In January , as World War I raged on, a new and terrifying virus began to spread across the globe. IN , I was with friends celebrating the Fourth of July weekend at New York’s Fire Island Pines gay enclave when life changed. Buried on page A20 of The New York Times (July 3,) was a report about a new condition: “Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals.” Doctors in New York and San Francisco diagnosed a form of Kaposi’s Sarcoma cancer normally seen in elderly men suddenly .
The book seems divided into three sections: first, with the outbreak of AIDs in New York City and San Francisco among gay men. The second section is mostly devoted to a history of studying AIDS itself: the laborious process of identifying HIV, its genetic structure, its method of /5. Ronald Reagan has a lot to account for: the early AIDS epidemic unleashed more stigmatization of gay men than any other event in the history of gay life in America, and Ronald Reagan presided as president over the first seven years of that slaughter. Three years into the epidemic, we had already seen 7, reported AIDS cases and 5, : Walt Odets.
And nowhere has the institution's growing involvement in health-related work been more visible than in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.4 By early , a total of US $ billion had been made available for HIV/AIDS-related work through World Bank loans to developing countries, with significant increases in the commitment of resources in Cited by: The Origins of AIDS takes us to the former Belgian Congo to investigate this controversial claim put forward by journalist Edward Hooper. In his book, The River: Journey to the Source of AIDS, he links the onset of AIDS to a mass polio vaccination in the 's when nearly a million Africans were injected with an experimental vaccine derived from monkey organs.
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The AIDS Pandemic explores the ways in which HIV/AIDS has, and continues to transform the wide range of related disciplines it touches. Novel perspectives are provided by a unique panel of internationally recognised experts who cover the unprecedented impact onf AIDS on culture, demographics and politics around the world, including how it affected the worlds' economy, health.
The AIDS Pandemic: Searching for a Global Response recounts the global response to the AIDS pandemic from its inception to today. Policymakers, students, faculty, journalists, researchers, and health professionals interested in HIV/AIDS, global health, global pandemics, and the history of medicine will find it highly compelling and by: 4.
Popular Pandemic Books. His book is engagingly written, both thoughtful and thorough, and sheds necessary light on AIDS in the Americas. Those of us who care about global AIDS are indebted to Smallman for telling these storiesChris Beyrer, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg The AIDS pandemic book of Public Health The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America is an attentive and heartfelt exploration 5/5(1).
The Spanish flu pandemic ofthe deadliest in history, infected an estimated The AIDS pandemic book people worldwide—about one-third of the planet’s population—and killed an.
The AIDS Pandemic is a well-written book that accomplishes its stated goal, to provide an extensive review of U.S. HIV/AIDS laws and policies. The book's greatest strength is its comprehensiveness. The AIDS Pandemic: Searching for a Global Response recounts the global response to the AIDS pandemic from its inception to today.
Policymakers, students, faculty, journalists, researchers, and health professionals interested in HIV/AIDS, global health, global pandemics, and the history of medicine will find it highly compelling and consequential.
The AIDS Pandemic explores the ways in which HIV/AIDS has, and continues to transform the wide range of related disciplines it touches. Novel perspectives are provided by a unique panel of internationally recognised experts who cover the unprecedented impact onf AIDS on culture, demographics and politics around the world, including how it affected the worlds' economy, health.
“Time Remaining” arrived twenty-five years ago, during one of the bleakest stretches of the AIDS pandemic—shortly after a British study revealed that AZT, the foremost drug for preventing Author: Michael Lapointe. This book is a monumental one, which provides a depth of perspective and research on the most lethal influenza outbreak in history, as well as the morality surrounding a pandemic.
Rutgers professor Paul Lisicky's new memoir examines life, loss in AIDS pandemic. Rutgers-Camden professor and memoirist Paul Lisicky reflects on AIDS in Provincetown with the backdrop of the Author: Tammy Paolino.
Book Description: Bound up with the human cost of HIV/AIDS is the critical issue of its impact on national and international security, yet attempts to assess the pandemic's complex risk fail to recognize the political dangers of construing the disease as a security threat.
This book examines the global HIV/AIDS pandemic from a multidisciplinary perspective, analyzing its economic impact, the reasons behind the political response to the pandemic, international laws relating to public health and patents and mechanisms for financing global and national responses.
The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America - Ebook written by Shawn C. Smallman. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America.
From the courtroom to the United Nations, this book provides a unique and scholarly account of the most important legal, social, and political issues posed by the AIDS pandemic in this country and abroad.—Michael Merson, M.D., Anna M.
Author: Lawrence O. Gostin. "The AIDS pandemic results from a single spillover of what was a chimpanzee virus, from one chimpanzee to one human, in the southeastern corner. Protection for First Responders, Medical Workers Frontal facial protection from droplets, saliva, dust; Reusable after sterilization; Full plastic panels for maximum protection - Size:.
The work details the year history of HIV/AIDS and the controversial efforts to stanch the spread of the disease. Lessons Learned. In his new book, Michael Merson explores some of the challenges that hampered the global AIDS response. “Responding to a global pandemic like AIDS is a complex process,” Merson said.
Shawn Smallman has drawn on history, politics, epidemiology, and studies of sexual culture and gender to investigate the AIDS pandemic in Latin America.
His book is engagingly written, both thoughtful and thorough, and sheds necessary light on AIDS in the : Get this from a library. The AIDS pandemic: social perspectives. [Yole G Sills] -- "This book seeks to give the general reader an overview of the social, economic, and political impact that AIDS is having throughout the world [It] offers a summary of recent writings about AIDS.
The AIDS Pandemic explores the ways in which HIV/AIDS has, and continues to transform the wide range of related disciplines it touches. Novel perspectives are provided by a unique panel of internationally recognised experts who cover the unprecedented impact onf AIDS on culture, demographics and politics around the world, including how it affected the worlds' economy, health Brand: Elsevier Science.The AIDS Pandemic will find an engaged audience among policymakers, students, faculty, journalists, researchers, and other health professionals working and interested in global health, public health, the World Health Organization, HIV/AIDS, global pandemics, the history of medicine, and global health policy.
It will also interest those involved.DGHI's Michael Merson's New Book Sheds Light on AIDS Pandemic Response Octo Dynamic leaders spearheaded the global response to the emergence of AIDS, but found themselves hampered by structural weaknesses in the United Nations, the political whims of governments and the complexities of the disease itself, according to the authors of a new book.
