Encyclopedia of AIDS: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Scientific Record of the HIV Epidemic

by Raymond A. Smith

Book Overview

The Encyclopedia of AIDS covers all major aspects of the first 15 years of the AIDS epidemic, including the breakthroughs in treatment announced at the International AIDS Conference in July 1996. The encyclopedia provides extensive coverage of major topics in eight areas: basic science and epidemiology; transmission and prevention; pathology and treatment; impacted populations; policy and law; politics and activism; culture and society; and the global...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579580076
• ISBN13: 9781579580070
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 650 Pages
• Weight: 5.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 9.0" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Extemly helpful

This book is a keeper. It's detail oriented and explains with simple language that the average reader can comprehend. It's very informative and information that you never associate with HIV/AIDS is explain and how if any it correlates. This book also helps to dispelled any myths that current exist about this epidemic disease.