Aids category: 18535 books
The AIDS Movie
Representing a Pandemic in Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Are people with HIV/AIDS treated fairly in films?
Here is a compelling book that provides you with a thorough examination of how HIV/AIDS is characterized and portrayed in film and how this portrayal affects American culture. The AIDS Movie: Representing a Pandemic in Film and Television uncovers...
HIV/AIDS Community Information Services
Experiences in Serving Both At-Risk and HIV-Infected Populations
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Information forms the basis for education, and currently education is the only weapon available to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS and to foster empathy toward individuals already affected by the disease. HIV/AIDS and Community Information Services provides readers with insight into the information construct...
by Michael A Hallett
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Activism and Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis shows readers how the advent of HIV-disease has brought into question the utility of certain forms of “activism” as they relate to understanding and fighting the social impacts of disease. This informative and powerful book is centrally concerned...
AIDS and Mental Health Practice
Clinical and Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Addressing contemporary issues faced by individuals with HIV/AIDS, AIDS and Mental Health Practice: Clinical and Policy Issues provides psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and counselors with research and case studies that offers models for effective clinical practice at this stage of the...
HIV/AIDS Prevention
Current Issues in Community Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Develop a positive working relationship between researchers and community groups focusing on HIV/AIDS prevention, and discover how to evaluate HIV/AIDS programs!
An indispensable manual for everyone involved with HIV/AIDS research, prevention techniques, and the needs of individuals with HIV/AIDS,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
Reflecting the current state of research into the communication aspects of HIV/AIDS, this volume explores AIDS-related communication scholarship, moving forward from the 1992 publication AIDS: A Communication Perspective.
Editors Timothy Edgar, Seth M. Noar, and Vicki S. Freimuth have developed...
HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS-Related Terminology
A Means of Organizing the Body of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS-Related Terminology: A Means of Organizing the Body of Knowledge offers an adaptable and extensive framework for organizing the ever-expanding number of resources on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It lays down the groundwork upon which future blocks of information can be placed. As new...
by Jeffrey T Huber, Mary L Gillaspy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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...
Dry Bones Breathe
Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Dry Bones Breathe: Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures breaks new ground in offering an original and insightful interpretation of gay men’s shifting experience of the AIDS epidemic. From Dry Bones Breathe, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of current community debates focused on...
Someone Was Here
Profiles in the AIDS Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
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...
AIDS, Communication, and Empowerment
Gay Male Identity and the Politics of Public Health Messages
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
AIDS, Communication, and Empowerment examines the cultural construction of gay men in light of discourse used in the media’s messages about HIV/AIDS--messages often represented as educational, scientific, and informational but which are, in fact, politically charged. The book offers a compelling...
Women and AIDS
Negotiating Safer Practices, Care, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
For many women, the advice “Use a condom!” is not enough to help protect them from HIV infection. As Women and AIDS reveals, “negotiating” safer sex practices is a very complex issue for women who are involved in relationships where they do not enjoy physical, social, or economic equality....
by Barbara A Dicks
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Examine the biopsychosocial, environmental, spiritual, and policy issues that affect HIV/AIDS prevention/service delivery issues for Caribbean youth!
This groundbreaking book provides an overview and informed discussion of HIV/AIDS as it affects children and adolescents in Antigua, Barbados,...
How to Have Theory in an Epidemic
Cultural Chronicles of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 1999
Paula A. Treichler has become a singularly important voice among the significant theorists on the AIDS crisis. Dissecting the cultural politics surrounding representations of HIV and AIDS, her work has altered the field of cultural studies by establishing medicine as a legitimate focus for cultural...