Tuesday, December 01, 2020

World AIDS Day - some reading

Today is World AIDS Day.  

Here are some relevant books and chapters.   The University of Leicester Library has these as ebooks, your library might have too.

ABC of HIV and AIDS / edited by Michael W. Adler, 2012 (this is the latest edition)

AIDS: global status / Stephen Berger, 2015 (published by GIDEON, the infectious diseases database)

AIDS between science and politics / Peter Piot and Laurence Garey, 2015.   (Piot was founding director of the UN AIDS programme)

Then there are chapters in larger textbooks:

Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 2020
Chapters 8.5.23 and 8.5.24 (8.5.24 discusses low and middle income countries).

Two in Clinical Key Student Nursing and Midwifery:

Alexander’s Nursing Practice, 5th ed.
Chapter 33

Lewis’s Medical Surgical Nursing, 11th ed. 
Chapter 14

Two in Clinical Key Physician (Professional):

Mandell Douglas and Bennett’s Principles and practice of infectious diseases, 9th ed.
Chapters 118-129 (chapter 126 is on HIV and AIDS in women, chapter 127 on HIV and AIDS in children)

Goldman-Cecil’s Textbook of Medicine, 26th ed.
Chapters 360-367

And one in Lippincott Health Library:

Schaechter’s Mechanisms of microbial disease, 5th ed.
Chapter 38.

There will be more on specific aspects of HIV and AIDS, to be found through Library Search.   Put the book titles above into Library Search to get links.


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