AIDS : Opposing Viewpoints Opposing Viewpoints Series

by Tamara L. Roleff (Editor), Charles P. Cozic (Editor)

Another in the Opposing Viewpoints series, this examines the many aspects of the disease, its controversial prevention strategies, and its treatments. Since information about HIV/AIDS changes almost daily, the currency and the wide-ranging articles from both mainstream and less well known sources, juxtaposed to invite thought and debate, are especially valuable.

HIV, Health, and Your Community: A Guide for Action

by Reuben Granich, Jonathan Mermin, Mona Sfeir (Illustrator), Suzan Goodman (Contributor)

Easy-to-understand guide for health workers in areas with few medical resources, such as rural Africa or Thailand. Designed as a manual for those confronting the HIV epidemic in their communities and without medical or technical knowledge or prior training in the prevention of HIV. Uses contemporary examples and halftone line drawings.

Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine

by Jon Cohen

A wake-up call, a must-read for policy makers, scientific leaders and everyone who is working to stop AIDS

The River : A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS

by Edward Hooper, W. D. Hamilton

In this hefty volume, Hooper, a journalist and author, puts forward a startling theory about the origin of HIV and AIDS. Based on over 600 interviews and more than 4,000 written sources, his research suggests that HIV may have been spread to humans, not from the "natural" result of human/chimp encounters as previously believed, but rather from medical experiments done in Africa in the 1950s with an oral polio vaccine which may have been manufactured from chimpanzee kidneys.

What if everything you thought you knew about AIDS was wrong?

by Christine Maggiore, Kary Mullis

" Clear, concise and completely accurate, Maggiore's powerful little book is highly recommended reading for anyone who has ever had the doubt about any aspect of the 'global AIDS pandemic,' and is absolutely compulsory reading for those few never have."

Inventing the AIDS Virus

by Peter H. Duesberg, Kary Mullis

A well-credentialed scientist's hard-driving attack on the accepted view that AIDS is an infectious disease caused by HIV

Viral Sex : The Nature of AIDS

by Jaap Goudsmit

The thoughts and experiences of such a scientist are a rare treat, and Goudsmit writes well, enlivening his vast store of information with humorous asides.... There is a good deal of technical information in this book, but its appeal reaches far beyond just fellow scientists. It is full of astonishing and interesting facts not only about viruses but about the humans studying them.

Ethics in HIV-Related Psychotherapy: Clinical Decision-Making in Complex Cases

by John R., Phd. Anderson (Editor), Robert L., Phd Barret (Editor)

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