Restoring Hope

. Ed(s): Karpf, Ted; Ferguson, Todd; Swift, Robin; Lazarus, Jeffrey V.

ISBN 10: 0230223389 / ISBN 13: 9780230223387

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

About this Item

This volume is a call to re-examine assumptions about what care is and how it be practised. Rather than another demand for radical reform, it makes the case for thinking clearly and critically. It urges people living with HIV to become full partners in designing and implementing their own care and for caregivers to accept them in this role. Editor(s): Karpf, Ted; Ferguson, Todd; Swift, Robin; Lazarus, Jeffrey V. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFH2; MBN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 169 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336. . 2008. Hardback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Restoring Hope
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230223389
• ISBN 13: 9780230223387
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

This volume is a call to re-examine assumptions about what care is and how it be practised. Rather than another demand for radical reform, it makes the case for thinking clearly and critically. It urges people living with HIV to become full partners in designing and implementing their own care and for caregivers to accept them in this role.

About the Author

THE REVEREND CANON TED KARPF is the partnerships officer in the Office of the Director-General's Representative for Partnerships and UN Reform at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

J. TODD FERGUSON is Research Associate, Ethics Group, American Medical Association, USA.

ROBIN YAEGER SWIFT is Director of the Clergy Health Initiative, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

JEFFREY V. LAZARUS works at the Communicable Diseases Unit, WHO Regional Office for Europe, and is on the faculty at Copenhagen University, Denmark.