AIDS at 30: A History [Kindle Edition]
Author: Victoria A Harden | Language: English | ISBN: B006Z9K12M | Format: PDF, EPUB
AIDS at 30: A History
You can download AIDS at 30: A History [Kindle Edition] from mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and reemerging diseases will continue to challenge humanity. AIDS at 30 is the first history of HIV/AIDS written for a general audience that emphasizes the medical response to the epidemic.
Award-winning medical historian Victoria A. Harden approaches the AIDS virus from philosophical and intellectual perspectives in the history of medical science, discussing the process of scientific discovery, scientific evidence, and how laboratories found the cause of AIDS and developed therapeutic interventions. Similarly, her book places AIDS as the first infectious disease to be recognized simultaneously worldwide as a single phenomenon.
After years of believing that vaccines and antibiotics would keep deadly epidemics away, researchers, doctors, patients, and the public were forced to abandon the arrogant assumption that they had conquered infectious diseases. By presenting an accessible discussion of the history of HIV/AIDS and analyzing how aspects of society advanced or hindered the response to the disease, AIDS at 30 illustrates for both medical professionals and general readers how medicine identifies and evaluates new infectious diseases quickly and what political and cultural factors limit the medical community’s response. Direct download links available for AIDS at 30: A History [Kindle Edition]
You can download AIDS at 30: A History [Kindle Edition] from mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and reemerging diseases will continue to challenge humanity. AIDS at 30 is the first history of HIV/AIDS written for a general audience that emphasizes the medical response to the epidemic.
Award-winning medical historian Victoria A. Harden approaches the AIDS virus from philosophical and intellectual perspectives in the history of medical science, discussing the process of scientific discovery, scientific evidence, and how laboratories found the cause of AIDS and developed therapeutic interventions. Similarly, her book places AIDS as the first infectious disease to be recognized simultaneously worldwide as a single phenomenon.
After years of believing that vaccines and antibiotics would keep deadly epidemics away, researchers, doctors, patients, and the public were forced to abandon the arrogant assumption that they had conquered infectious diseases. By presenting an accessible discussion of the history of HIV/AIDS and analyzing how aspects of society advanced or hindered the response to the disease, AIDS at 30 illustrates for both medical professionals and general readers how medicine identifies and evaluates new infectious diseases quickly and what political and cultural factors limit the medical community’s response. Direct download links available for AIDS at 30: A History [Kindle Edition]
- File Size: 1799 KB
- Print Length: 340 pages
- Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.; 1 edition (January 31, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B006Z9K12M
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #485,556 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #32 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Disorders & Diseases > AIDS
- #99 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Professional & Technical > Medical eBooks > Administration & Policy > Health Policy
Having recently been diagnosed as HIV+, this book was an interesting journey into learning the wheres, whys & hows of this chronic disease. It is very readable, understandable and occasionally fascinating, as it delves into the origins of the disease, the history of our national reaction at the time, and what great strides we've made in helping to turn the disease from a death sentence to a chronic, though manageable, condition. Definitely recommended for HIV+ patients, and all who want to learn about the disease.By Scott Deberg
Harden provides an overview of the AIDS epidemic that is well-rounded if not completely comprehensive. She does her best to address both the scientific and social significance of the disease.By Rachel
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