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Author: John E. Glass Ph.D. ,
Kathy Stolley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Greenwood Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.510kg
ISBN: 9780313344213
ISBN 10: 0313344213
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 25 August 2009
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience:
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
"""Stolley (sociology and women’s and gender studies, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk) and Glass (sociology, Collin County Community College, Texas) contribute a volume on the retroviral disease to the series providing general readers and non-specialist students a basic foundation in topics and issues in medicine and health. After summarizing the current medical, epidemiological, and public health perspectives on HIV/AIDS, they discuss such issues as policy responses popular culture, adolescents and young adults, drug users, and prisons. A chronology appears in a final section along with texts of some primary documents and a directory of organizations."" - SciTech Book News ""While tomes on HIV/AIDS abound, what sets this one apart is its clear and very accessible language. HIV/AIDS is appropriate and highly recommended for public libraries and undergraduate academic collections."" - ARBAonline ""This volume is suitable for students and general readers who need a basic understanding of HIV/AIDS. . . Recommended. First-year undergraduate students and laypersons."" - Choice ""Students will find the comprehensive coverage of HIV/AIDS extremely useful for research or for understanding the issue beyond the introductory level. In addition to the standard information one would expect, the text offers interesting surprises, such as the chapter devoted to HIV/AIDS as it is presented in popular culture and a study of urban myths and their ability to skew society’s perception of the disease. . . . This definitive guide for one of the most controversial medical issues of today and its extensive reference section will encourage further reading and research."" - VOYA"
<p> While tomes on HIV/AIDS abound, what sets this one apart is its clear and very accessible language. HIV/AIDS is appropriate and highly recommended for public libraries and undergraduate academic collections. - <p>ARBAonline
While tomes on HIV/AIDS abound, what sets this one apart is its clear and very accessible language. HIV/AIDs is appropriate and highly recommended for public libraries and undergraduate academic collections. - ARBAonline Stolley (sociology and women's and gender studies, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk) and Glass (sociology, Collin County Community College, Texas) contribute a volume on the retroviral disease to the series providing general readers and non-specialist students a basic foundation in topics and issues in medicine and health. After summarizing the current medical, epidemiological, and public health perspectives on HIV/AIDS, they discuss such issues as policy responses popular culture, adolescents and young adults, drug users, and prisons. A chronology appears in a final section along with texts of some primary documents and a directory of organizations. - SciTech Book News This volume is suitable for students and general readers who need a basic understanding of HIV/AIDS... Recommended. First-year undergraduate students and laypersons. - Choice Students will find the comprehensive coverage of HIV/AIDS extremely useful for research or for understanding the issue beyond the introductory level. In addition to the standard information one would expect, the text offers interesting surprises, such as the chapter devoted to HIV/AIDS as it is presented in popular culture and a study of urban myths and their ability to skew society's perception of the disease... This definitive guide for one of the most controversial medical issues of today and its extensive reference section will encourage further reading and research. - VOYA
Author Information
Kathy S. Stolley is an assistant professor of sociology at Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, VA. She is the author of Greenwood Press book The Basics of Sociology (2005) and of The Praeger Handbook of Adoption (2006). John E. Glass is a professor of sociology at Collin County Community College, Frisco, TX.
