Authors:

Hung Y. Fan
Ross F. Conner
Luis P. Villarreal

Date of publication:

2004

Published by:

Jones and Bartlett Publishers

ARC Catalog Number:

HC4.4.F32

Description:

Biomedical research and technology have brought about new, more effective treatments for AIDS and hastened progress toward an eventual cure, but this terrible epidemic still poses new and unforeseen difficulties with no immediate biological solution in sight. AIDS: Science and Society, Fourth Edition confronts these challenges by providing readers with a conceptual framework that will help them to understand and make informed decisions about AIDS-related issues.

The new edition of this best-selling textbook provides readers with a firm overview of AIDS from both biomedical and psychosocial perspectives. The book covers the molecular and cellular aspects of the HIV virus and the immune system’s response to it and then considers epidemiology and its role in understanding HIV/AIDS. Extensive discussion of the personal and societal implications of HIV infection, from prevention to diagnosis and subsequent discrimination, is also included. The use of understandable vocabulary and clear illustrations, also with updated biomedical chapters and the most current statistics on AIDS available, make AIDS: Science and Society an essential resource for students and general readers.