Books about HIV and AIDS

I was making a reading list about HIV and AIDS.   

What follows is an observation, not systematic research.

On the shelves we had:

• ABC of AIDS / edited by Michael W. Adler, 2001.

• The AIDS knowledge base : a textbook on HIV disease from the University of California, San Francisco, and San Francisco General Hospital / editors, P.T. Cohen, Merle A. Sande, Paul A. Volberding , 1999.

• Aids and other manifestations of HIV infection / edited by Gary P. Wormser, 2004.

• AIDS : etiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, 1997.

• HIV infection in women / Johnson, Margaret A., 1993.

• HIV treatments directory / edited by Virginia Differding, 2010.

All old.   I can find no newer editions of most of them - there was a later edition of Adler (but 2012 - we have an ebook) and of Differding (2011).

We have newer but different things as ebooks (a reflection of the way we now acquire things).   Two of them involve Merle Sande or Paul Volberding, but nothing is newer than 2012.  I don't think there are newer editions of any of those either.

The Medical core collection has only a few items, (not including Adler’s ABC) but again nothing newer than 2012.

I feel confident in withdrawing most of the older print books, but I wonder if Johnson might still have material of relevance (amongst the material that is likely to be very out of date).    Perhaps this is a close equivalent, but it is also 2012.

In addition to books on the specific topic, there are also chapters in books like Schaechter’s mechanisms of microbial disease and Mandell Douglas and Bennett, the latest editions of which are a bit newer.

Why no new editions since 2012?    Perhaps there has been a stabilisation of knowledge and there has been nothing new to report since 2012.  Or perhaps newer editions are being prepared now.   It would be interesting to know if the same looks to be the case in other fields of medicine, or more specifically infectious diseases or sexual health.    But that is a subject for another post.