Until the Cure: Caring for Women with HIV (Yale Fastback Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300058357 ISBN 13: 9780300058352

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1993

Synopsis

A collection of contributions from experts in the fields of law, medicine, nursing, public health, social work, ethics, and psychiatry, and enriched by personal accounts from women who have been living with the disease. The aim is to foster creative and compassionate response from those who provide care. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

A collection of essays by doctors, social workers and scholars about the implications of AIDS for women, this focuses professional concern on an important but neglected subject. The perspectives and the approaches vary. In "Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Infection," Kathy M. Sanders, of Massachusetts General Hospital's psychiatry department, surveys the nature of AIDS Dementia Complex and nonorganic psychiatric disorders in female AIDS patients; and in "Legal Considerations," Michele Zavros, project director of the American Bar Association's AIDS Coordination Project, looks at the legal rights of women with AIDS, and the challenges faced by those who are mothers or who have few material resources. Other pieces consider the "matriarchy" of female minority AIDS caregivers; the ethics of AIDS for women (e.g., regarding conception); and the history of clinical trials for HIV-infected women. At heart, the book is meant for, as well as written by, health care professionals. But because documentation is scarce--and needed--others could and should read it.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Despite the rapidly increasing incidence of AIDS in women, little research has been done in this area. Gena Corea offered a historical account in The Invisible Epidemic: The Story of Women and AIDS ( LJ 11/1/92), but this book is the first to deal with the clinical treatment of female AIDS patients. Chapters are contributed by healthcare providers in various disciplines, with each chapter covering a specific aspect of patient care for women with HIV/AIDS. Protocols for general medical, gynecological, neuropsychiatric, and community healthcare are provided, along with information about the legal, ethical, and epidemiological aspects of this disease. Quotations from patients and practitioners add a human dimension to this medical textbook, which is rounded off by a resource list of organizations and information sources and an extensive bibliography of scientific literature. This unique, outstanding work belongs in all health science and large public library collections.
- Barbara M. Bibel, Oakland P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0300058357
• ISBN 13: 9780300058352
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Kurth Ms. Ann