Understanding AIDS: A Comprehensive Guide

✍ Scribed by Victor Gong (editor); Mervyn F. Silverman (editor)

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 268
• Edition: Reprint 2022
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Preface—Update on AIDS Research
Acknowledgments
One. The Twentieth Century Enigma
1 AIDS—Defining the Syndrome
2 Assembling the AIDS Puzzle: Epidemiology
Two. The Clinical Spectrum
3 The Immunology of AIDS
4 Signs and Symptoms of AIDS
5 The Infections of AIDS
6 Cancers and AIDS
Three. Implications
7 The Elusive Etiology— Possible Causes and Pathogenesis of AIDS
8 The Haitian Link
9 Hemophiliacs, Blood Transfusions, and AIDS
10 Is the General Public at Risk?
11 Ethical Issues in AIDS
Four. Treating AIDS
12 Immune System Modulation in AIDS Therapy
Five. Avoiding or Coping with AIDS
13 Caring for the AIDS Patient
14 Preventing AIDS
15 Psychological and Social Issues of AIDS and Strategies for Survival
16 Questions and Answers about AIDS
17 Health Resources, Hot Lines, and Referral Centers
Glossary
References and Sources
Index
Contributors