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Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"Until recently, efforts to promote safe sex among gay men ages thirty to forty-four were thought to be successful. Yet this group, while informed about the risks of contracting HIV, no longer consistently practices safer sex. Why? Health workers researching this "relapse" have suggested that such factors as guilt among survivors, alcohol and drug use, and low self-esteem are possible causes of continuing dangerous sexual behavior." "Risky Sex critiques...
Publisher
Rivers Oram Press
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
This book and the exhibition launches with it represent a powerful exploration in both image and text of the impact of the AIDS crisis. Different voices reveal the profound inadequacies in our attitudes to disease. The contributors disrupt the politically laden mythology of HIV and AIDS, and affirm the persistence of love and desire in the face of death. More than an interruption to personal life, AIDS has stimulated an eruption in creative life....
67) AIDS in America
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"In record numbers, Americans are reaching out to Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to help combat AIDS. Yet with more than one million people currently infected and half a million already dead, the U.S. ranks among the top ten most severe AIDS epidemics in the world. STD and HIV numbers are up, and for certain demographics they are skyrocketing. All the same, treatment is below what is available in Africa and Asia, and Americans are not getting sex...
Publisher
Crossing Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Seventy-seven writers (some well known, some not) contributed these essays and poems as tributes to friends, lovers, spouses, colleagues, and children who have died from AIDS. They are intimate and sometimes funny and also terrifyingly graphic in detail about the lives and deaths of ordinary people who were extraordinary to those who loved them. This work will make readers reexamine their ideas on living and dying.
71) The least of these my brethren: a doctor's story of hope and miracles on an inner-city AIDS ward
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"Hector R., Rosa M., Yolanda J. These are the forgotten members of society - the homeless, the drug users, the poor - who are the most likely to come down with AIDS in today's America. These often invisible citizens with AIDS can nonetheless speak life-affirming messages of hope to all of us." "The Least of These My Brethren is the AIDS story that no one has written about so far, told by the one who cares for these marginalized people in conditions...
Author
Publisher
Westview Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
The untold story in the AIDS crisis is that of the mobilization of the gay community. Bearing Witness is a study of how a community-based initiative - Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York - overcame the formidable obstacles of homophobia and fear of AIDS, and the resulting lack of an adequate response from political and health organizations. Philip Kayal shows how volunteers at Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) confront their deepest fears about being...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The real story of AIDS--how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people--is very different from what most of us think we know. Recent research has revealed dark surprises and yielded a radically new scenario of how AIDS began and spread. Excerpted and adapted from the book Spillover, with a new introduction by the author, Quammen's ... investigation tracks the virus from chimp populations...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A graphic memoir and adapted oral history of Unit 371, an inpatient AIDS care hospital unit in Chicago that was in existence from 1985 to 2000. Examines the human costs of caregiving and the role art can play in the grieving process"--
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"[T]he story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful nation, and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medication and treatments and move them through trials and into drugstores in record time."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"Based on over a decade of research, involving more than 600 interviews and analysis of more than 4,000 scientific texts, The River examines the myriad theories about the origin of the AIDS epidemic - and reaches a stunning and startling conclusion." "Since the early nineties, serious HIV researchers have been aware that the most common variant of HIV - human immunodeficiency virus - is the direct descendant of an SIV - simian immunodeficiency virus...
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
David Weissman's We Were Here revisits the San Francisco of the 80s and 90s, using the city's experience with AIDS to open up a conversation about both the history of the epidemic and the lessons to be learned from it. Yet the film reaches far beyond San Francisco and beyond AIDS itself as it illuminates the power of a community that comes together with love, compassion, and determination.