Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Jag dör, men minnet lever Jag dör, men minnet lever Henning Mankell A powerful, moving and tragic account of the families shattered and children abandoned as a result of the spread of HIV and, through the Memory Books project, a hope for the future. Henning Mankel… OL13629224W
Object matters Object matters Nicole Vitellone "During the mid-1980s the object of the condom became associated with the prevention of HIV/AIDS. In this book Nicole Vitellone investigates the consequences of this shift in the object's meaning." "… OL15881247W
Our kind of people Our kind of people Uzodinma Iweala HIV/AIDS has profoundly affected life in sub-Saharan Africa. It has been reported as one of the most destructive diseases in recent memory - tearing apart communities and ostracising the afflicted. B… OL16318779W
Education and HIV/AIDS Education and HIV/AIDS Nalini Asha Biggs "Examines the relationship HIV/AIDS has with education in different international contexts, from Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, the USA, UK, and the Caribbean"-- Provided by publ… OL16615528W
My own country My own country Abraham Verghese By the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone, a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears. Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tenness… OL1822507W
Punishing Disease Punishing Disease Trevor Hoppe From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIV—mostly stigmatized minorities—began before doctors had even settled on a name for the di… OL20218841W
Activism Against AIDS Activism Against AIDS Brett C. Stockdill "Brett Stockdill reveals that people living with HIV/AIDs are often multiply oppressed - gay men of color, for example - and explores how interlocking oppressions fragment activism and thus impede AI… OL8964642W
Loss within Loss Loss within Loss Edmund White,N. Y. Alliance for the Arts When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging, so… OL9380922W