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Examines the course of the AIDS epidemic over the next 15 years. The authors propose a universal routine voluntary testing programme to avert the impending catastrophe and argue that this can offer one of the best defences against the epidemic.

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Discusses the current demographic patterns of AIDS, noting the rapid spread of AIDS/HIV to "new" populations, such as women and adolescents. The authors establish guide-lines for need definition, effective service delivery and case practice among different population segments.

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Using data from the early 1990s and from follow-up interviews conducted later in the decade, this work shows that many clergy became involved in the pastoral care for and counselling of people stigmatized by AIDS, including gay men, despite expressions of antipathy from their denominations.

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This authoritative work provides a thorough overview of the COVID-19 pandemic that swept the globe in 2020, devoting particular attention to its impact on all aspects of American society.

The 21st Century Turning Points series is a one-stop resource for understanding the people and events changing America today.

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Behavior change is viewed as essential, so precepts of health promotion and health belief models used to predict motivation and risk behavior are discussed. This book is essential reading for AIDS researchers, public health administrators and policymakers, health care practitioners, and sociologists.

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The essential lifeplan for people with irritable bowel syndrome

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Offers an introduction to mathematical models in epidemiology and shows how they can be used to predict and control the geographic spread of major infectious diseases. This work explains the key concepts in infectious disease modeling, guides readers from simple mathematical models to more complex ones, and explores their strengths and weaknesses.

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This unique, research-based investigation of the U.S. breast cancer movement compares the "pink" and "green" efforts within the movement and documents their use of similar citizen-science alliances, despite the contention over the use of consumer-based activism and pink products.

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Provides an overview of the diverse areas that constitute HIV research. Each chapter is a comprehensive presentation of one area of AIDS research - including work on the virus life cycle, epidemiology, genetics, protease and reverse transcriptase inhibitors, receptor and co-receptor interactions, therapeutic targets, clinical treatment, and more.

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A vivid, sweeping, history of mankinds battles with infectious disease that contextualizes the COVID-19 pandemic for readers of bestsellers Yuval Hararis Sapiens and John Barrys The Great Influenza.

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Written by experts in psycho-oncology, this book synthesizes the findings of the latest research on women's cancers to empower women to make informed choices about treatment options.

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A timely study of early efforts to conquer smallpox offers a dramatic profile of two eighteenth-century health pioneers--Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston--who flouted the European medical conventions of their era to draw on African folk knowledge and Eastern traditions to protect

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Personal stories and professional research findings make this volume a ready summary of the current knowledge surrounding autism. This book explains what research has revealed and supports it with personal accounts written by people with autism and the parents of autistic children.

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This thought-provoking biography of tuberculosis presents medical, historical, and social perspectives on this reemergent threat.

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The contributions by leading authorities include discussions of techniques for detecting tumor markers, steroid receptors, monoclonal antibodies, flow cytometry, chromosomal abnormalities, radioimmunodetection, ectopic hormones, cell markers in leukemia, nucleolar antigens, and non-specific markers.

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Explains with a minimum of jargon how diseases start, what that main symptoms are and how they may affect us. This book is suitable for those working in alternative medicine and also for those without a medical background who want an understanding of the ways in which common illnesses develop and the terms used to describe them.