AIDS: Principles, Practices, and Politics / Edition 1

by Inge B. Corless, Mary Pittman Lindeman

Overview

First published in 1989. Providing a voice of reason in the midst of the controversy, this book looks at the principles, practices and politics surrounding AIDS and includes the Surgeon General's report; sections on AIDS awareness, women and AIDS, advice on choosing therapies, looking at patients and studies around public schools and intravenous drug users.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780891167723
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/1987
Series:	Death Education, Aging and Health Care
Edition description:	Abridged
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Inge B. Corless Chair, Department of Secondary Care School of Nursing University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Mary Pittman-Linderman Director of Planning and Evaluation San Francisco Department of Public Health San Francisco, California

Table of Contents

Introduction, INGE B. CORLESS, MARY PITTMAN-LINDEMAN; Chapter 1 The Surgeon General's Report on AIDS, C. EVERETT KOOP, MICHAEL E. SAMUELS; Chapter 2 Epidemic Control Measures for AIDS: A Psychosocial and Historical Discussion of Policy Alternatives, DAVID G. OSTROW, MICHAEL ELLER, JILL G. JOSEPH; Chapter 3 The Treatment of People with AIDS: Psychosocial Considerations, ZELDA FOSTER; Chapter 4 Development of AIDS Awareness: A Personal History, ANGELA LEWIS; Chapter 5 Literature and AIDS: The Varieties of Love, LAUREL BRODSLEY; Chapter 6 Women with AIDS: Sexual Ethics in an Epidemic, JULIEN S. MURPHY; Chapter 7 An Ethics of Compassion, A Language of Division: Working out the AIDS Metaphors, JUDITH WILSON ROSS; Chapter 8 AIDS Overview, PAUL A. VOLBERDING; Chapter 9 Treatment Issues in AIDS, ELLEN C. COOPER; Chapter 10 Choosing Therapies, CHUCK FRUTCHEY; Chapter 11 The New Death among IV Drug Users, DON C. DES JARLAIS, CATHY CASRIEL, SAMUEL FRIEDMAN; Chapter 12 The Patient with AIDS: Care and Concerns, SR. PATRICE MURPHY, GRAHAM BASS, CAROLE DONOVAN, BETSY SELMAN; Chapter 13 Children with AIDS, MOSES GROSSMAN; Chapter 14 Public Schools Confront AIDS, ELIZABETH P. LAMERS; Chapter 15 Individual Education Programs for AIDS Control, DEAN F. ECHENBERG; Chapter 16 The Malignant Metaphor: A Political Thanatology of AIDS, MICHAEL A. SIMPSON; Chapter 17 Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on the Gay Political Agenda, JIM FOSTER; Chapter 18 Creative Acceptance: An Ethics for AIDS, REV. BERNARD BROWN; Chapter 19 AIDS: Seventh Rank Absolute, ROBERT FULTON, GREG OWEN;

Editorial Reviews

This book contains 19 chapters on AIDS and nursing, medicine, public health, sociology, education, philosophy, and theology. In medical-technical areas, the book is current. Chapters on patient vignettes and AIDS in the classroom are good. Otherwise, the book covers a hodgepodge of philosophical and psychosocial aspects of AIDS and its health programs. The nontechnical chapters are often redundant and do not tell much that the informed public does not already know. For university libraries emphasizing medical sociology and philosophy. Mark L. Dembert, M.D., Navy Environmental Health Ctr., Norfolk, Va.

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