Understanding AIDS : : A Comprehensive Guide / / ed. by Victor Gong.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Blatt, Michael Nissen,; Calabrese, Leonard,; Choi, Keewhan,; Cuff, Mary E.,; Fernando, Nirmal K.,; Gong, V.,; Gong, Victor,; Greer, Benjamin,; Hirsch, Robert,; Ho, Peter,; Johnson, Edward,; Lehman, Virginia,; Lipscomb, Helen L.,; Marsh, Michael,; Murray, Thomas H.,; Rubinstein, Arye,; Russell, Noreen,; Scarpinato, Leonard,; Sensakovic, John W.,; Silverman, Mervyn F.,; Vieira, Jeffrey,
• HerausgeberIn: Gong, Victor,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [1985]; ©1985
• Year of Publication: 1985
• Edition: Reprint 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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