AIDS: What Does It Mean to You? - Softcover

Hyde, Margaret O.; Forsyth, Elizabeth H.

9780802767479: AIDS: What Does It Mean to You?

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802767478 ISBN 13: 9780802767479

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1987

Discusses the causes, symptoms, and treatment of AIDS and examines the advances made in slowing the progress of the disease.

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About the Author:

Hyde is the author or co-author of 85 books for young readers. Her books for Franklin Watts include Vaccinations, Depression, and When the Brain Dies First. She has also written documentary programs for television.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 8 Up-- Now in the fourth edition, Hyde and Forsyth's standard work resembles previous versions. Material has been rearranged, revised, and expanded, but the well-researched straightforward text retains the same emphasis and tone. An introductory chapter entitled ``AIDS: The Second Decade'' describes Magic Johnson's recent contributions to AIDS awareness, and gives an overview of the disease that includes modes of transmission and current high-risk groups. Subsequent sections cover prevention, treatment, living with AIDS, caring for people with it, and coping with feelings toward infected individuals. Relating the modern disease to other devastating plagues, the authors have retained excellent historical material that will be useful to report writers. A glossary and brief list of other information sources are given. Equally factual and also recently revised, Alvin and Virginia Silverstein's AIDS (Enslow, 1991) has a similar scope. Libraries may want to have both books, as there is some unique material in each and an endless demand for readable YA material on this topic. --Sue A. Norkeliunas, Arlington Senior High School, LaGrangeville, NY
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