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Author_John E. Glass Ph.D.
Author_Kathy Stolley
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Health and Wellness: Diseases and Conditions
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- ISBN 9780313344213
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 25 Aug 2009
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The history, symptoms, prevention, and current issues surrounding HIV and AIDS are discussed, along with a focus on special populations struggling with the disease.
Once thought to be a disease of homosexuals and drug abusers, AIDS has now impacted people across cultures, genders, and sexual orientations. Despite activism, new research, and treatments, many people are still dying from this disease. HIV/AIDS offers a comprehensive, one-volume resource that traces the history of the disease, and discusses prevention, along with current research and treatment. It examines issues such as care giving, health care settings, human rights, pregnancy, and insurance.
The incidence and prognosis for the disease among special populations, as well as their needs and struggles, are covered in detail. These groups include: drug and alcohol abusers, the gay and lesbian community, minority communities, pediatric patients, prisoners, senior citizens, and women. With education the key to both prevention and care of those infected, this volume is an invaluable resource for students and general readers.
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.
