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These essays examine how the spread of the HIV infection has been dealt with in nine countries. The countries cited in this study have been chosen to emphasize contrasts in the social and epidemiological profiles of AIDS and to suggest the diversity of problems the virus presents.

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The presentation of new, emerging concepts of the pathogenesis and management of acute Myocardial Infarction is the unprecedented objective of this book. Its second section develops the pathophysiology of acute MI including the reversibility of ischemic myocardial injury, and methods for detecting the size and extent of myocardial infarcts.

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This book offers an accessible and comprehensive yet compact description of various forms of addiction, a disorder suffered by one in every 10 people in the United States.

Now thought of as a brain disorder, addiction affects millions of individuals, their families, and society at large.

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Diseases have a history, and understanding that history helps us understand how best to treat and control disease today.

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This book serves as a training manual for mental health professionals and other community members who desire a practical handbook to guide their work with adult children from dysfunctional families in both individual and group counseling.

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This volume is a collection of fourteen essays investigating the advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of directives, the role of professionals in making and honoring them, policy issues that need to be addressed, and future directions which directives may take.

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Advances In Plant Nutrition, Volume Three, is the latest edition to Tinker's and Lauchli's series on major research efforts in plant nutrition.

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While the increase in lifesaving technology has extended both the length and quality of life for patients, critics argue that healthcare professionals often read the technology rather than the patient. This text explores how the nursing profession faces and deals with technological advances.

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While the increase in lifesaving technology has extended both the length and quality of life for patients, critics argue that healthcare professionals often read the technology rather than the patient. This text explores how the nursing profession faces and deals with technological advances.

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In order to examine the importance of alternative medicine to the African American population, this book focuses on the African American health belief system and the treatment strategies often used and documented.

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Covering the colonial and post-colonial periods, African nurses and everyday work puts at the centre of historical enquiry the experiences of African nurses who laboured day and night in Zimbabwe's hospitals, healing the sick and nursing the infirm. -- .

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The comprehensive, evidence-based resource for a robust, healthy, joyful life after cancer treatment.

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This much-needed book provides honest, clear, and helpful medical information for older adults and their caregivers, written in an easily understandable language.

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The book, divided into 16 chapters on different aspects of aging and health, will be useful to gerontologists, geriatricians, health policy analysts, researchers, librarians and information specialists, marketing professionals, journalists, students, and others doing research on aging, health, and health services.

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The name AIDS is an accusation. At the bottom are drug users, victims of the War On Drugs, condemned to contract AIDS by using contaminated syringes necessitated by scarcity resulting from restrictive policies.

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Since the time AIDS and HIV infection were first discovered, no medical cures have been developed. This work describes how to tailor HIV education and prevention efforts to specific communities, and shows how to identify those most at risk.

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This book provides human resource managers with the information necessary to cope with the ethical, legal, and financial issues surrounding AIDS--a disease that will eventually affect almost every workplace in the world.

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Community based organizations assist participants in developing social skills and familiar language for negotiating and practicing safer, non-risky behaviors.

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Part One is a chronological listing of information which illustrates how information about AIDS has evolved annually and in which form this information appears.

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A psychotherapist and long-time acquaintance of Albert Ellis presents a biography of one of the leading contributors to the theory and practice of modern psychotherapy.

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The latest volume in the Sexual Medicine series, Alcohol and Sexuality provides an extensive review of current literature on the inter-relationship between alcohol use/abuse and sexuality. Topics addressed include the effects of alcohol on sexual responses of male and female social drinkers and male and female alcoholics;