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Author:   Wendee M. Wechsberg (Director, RTI International) ,  James W. Curran
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9781421425726

ISBN 10:   1421425726
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   27 August 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Foreword, by James W. Curran Introduction Patients, Physicians, and Hospitals The Healer, Dr. Beny Primm: Uncommon Man for Uncommon Times ""That AZT Kills Patients"": Learning from Lamar—A 25-Year-Long Patient-Doctor Relationship Unmoored Yet Another Stigma: HIV Strikes People with Severe Mental Illness AIDS Case Management: A Community Response Women and Pioneering Women Cherchez la Femme: Yes, the French Woman Did It. She Discovered the AIDS Virus. The Needlestick Accident That Launched Healthcare Worker Safety: A Nurse's HIV Journey HIV Takes Center Stage ""Don't Die of Ignorance"": A Scramble for Knowledge Methadone Treatment, Jessie Helms, and Reaching Women Who Use Drugs South Africa's Response to AIDS and Preventing HIV in Young Women Survivors Finding the Black Church in the Fight to End AIDS: My Story Finding My Calling in Hell: My Journey Through the Early Years of AIDS What Did You Learn, Dorothy? Once a Garden, Now a Wildflower Personal Turning Points Baltimore's HERO But You're Not Part of Our Community The Accidental Ethnographer People Who Use Drugs GRID: Gay-Related Immune Deficiency Stories and Lessons Learned Surrounding People Who Inject Drugs: The Early Days of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Encounter With the Dark Side Junkiebonden and Users' Groups: Learning About the Collective Organization of People Who Use Drugs Social and Behavioral Science We're From the Government and We're Here to Help You First AIDS Grant, First Interviews with AIDS Patients, First Syringe Exchange Politics, First Syringe Research The Development, Testing, and Implementation of an Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model for the Prediction and Promotion of HIV/AIDS Preventive Behavior Out of Suffering: New Directions in AIDS Behavioral Prevention Research From a Personal Perspective From the Many One: A Collaborative Approach Historical Perspectives The Beginning of Science in the HIV Epidemic: Eureka Moments ""Slim Disease"": A New Health Scare in Uganda Afterword Contributors Index Index"

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Anyone interested in science, social history, communicable diseases or epidemiology would benefit from reading this topical, fascinating and inspirational book. -- Fay Hartley * British Society for the History of Medicine * I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in HIV epidemiology, especially if they are keen to contribute to the broad-based scientific progress and the well-being of the population they are attempting to benefit. -- David Solomon * Nursing Times *

Anyone interested in science, social history, communicable diseases or epidemiology would benefit from reading this topical, fascinating and inspirational book. -- Fay Hartley * British Society for the History of Medicine * I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in HIV epidemiology, especially if they are keen to contribute to the broad-based scientific progress and the well-being of the population they are attempting to benefit. -- David Solomon, Anglia Ruskin University * Nursing Times *

I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in HIV epidemiology, especially if they are keen to contribute to the broad-based scientific progress and the well-being of the population they are attempting to benefit. --David Solomon, Anglia Ruskin University Nursing Times Anyone interested in science, social history, communicable diseases or epidemiology would benefit from reading this topical, fascinating and inspirational book. --Fay Hartley British Society for the History of Medicine

Anyone interested in science, social history, communicable diseases or epidemiology would benefit from reading this topical, fascinating and inspirational book. -Fay Hartley, British Society for the History of Medicine I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in HIV epidemiology, especially if they are keen to contribute to the broad-based scientific progress and the well-being of the population they are attempting to benefit. -David Solomon, Anglia Ruskin University, Nursing Times

Author Information

Wendee M. Wechsberg is the director and principal researcher of the Substance Use, Gender, and Applied Research Program at RTI International, where she is also the founding director of the Global Gender Center. She is the editor of Prevention Issues for Women’s Health in the New Millennium.

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