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''The books strengths are how it explores the impact of HIV/AIDS on technological know-how greatly and on society typically and its inclusion, in each bankruptcy, of predictions for the long run. The AIDS Pandemic deals many brilliant debts, frequently with targeted insights. i'd suggest The AIDS Pandemic as a reference resource for a person attracted to virtually any point of HIV/AIDS.'' - Robert C Gallo, college of Maryland Baltimore, FOR THE LANCET (Nov 2005) ''...a compelling montage, choked with attention-grabbing and unforeseen twists within the storyline, even to a reader who has spent many of the prior 20 years deeply engaged with AIDS. ...This positive number of essays documents the early changes of many disciplines in and past medication. it's a superb updated, readable begin to an exam of ways AIDS has challenged us all, in drugs, public overall healthiness, and beyond.'' - Michael St. Louis, M.D., facilities for sickness keep watch over and Prevention, Atlanta, GA for the hot ENGLAND magazine of medication (September 2005) ''The publication is an anthology, so the perspective is collective, no longer singular...an super necessary source for physicians, researchers, coverage makers, reporters, and patients.'' -Stephen F. Morin, PhD, heart for AIDS Prevention reviews, college of California, San Francisco for JAMA (August 2004) ''...this booklet brings jointly quite a lot of specialists, who supply considerate insights on how AIDS has remodeled our clinical considering and method of care and validated the significance of social justice, scientific ethics and human rights...'' -Michael Merson, M.D., Anna M.R. Lauder Professor and Dean of Public healthiness, Yale collage (2004) ''After interpreting rather a lot approximately what has now not occurred, it was once clean to open The AIDS Pandemic, written by way of a various staff of authors and edited through Ken Mayer and Hank Pizer. within the e-book s preface, Mayer says that the AIDS pandemic has reworked the a number of disciplines it has touched from molecular biology...to macroeconomics, and the subsequent 19 chapters turn out it. The authors describe not just the effect of the HIV pandemic (the difficulties) but in addition a few courses, techniques, and suggestions (the solutions)- and so they do it in worldwide terms...The bankruptcy via Myron Cohen and Mina Hoseinipour entitled, HIV therapy Meets Prevention: Antiretroviral treatment as Prophylaxis, can be required interpreting for HIV counselors, therapists, and social workers...I may possibly say extra, yet as an alternative i'm going to suggest that you simply purchase Meyer and Pizers ebook, learn it, and go it directly to a colleague...If you need to glance ahead, learn the publication via Mayer and Pizer.'' - William M. Valenti, MD, collage of Rochester college of medication and Dentistry (April 2005) ''While the best epidemic within the historical past of the realm keeps on, the AIDS Pandemic bargains a extra complete and well timed view of its impression on either technological know-how and society. as a result breadth of subject matters coated, and the services assembled, the ebook issues the best way ahead and is a important addition to the library of the professional and the amateur alike.'' -Gerald T. Keusch, M.D., Assistant Provost and affiliate Dean for worldwide well-being, Director, international health and wellbeing Initiative at Boston collage (2004)
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