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The African AIDS Epidemic
A History
By John Iliffe
This history of the African AIDS epidemic is a much-needed, accessibly written historical account of the most serious epidemiological catastrophe of modern times. The African AIDS Epidemic: A History answers President Thabo Mbeki’s provocative question as to why Africa has suffered this terrible epidemic.…
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Personal Stories of College Students with Autism
The first book to be written by autistic college students about the challenges they face. It details the struggles of these highly sensitive students and shows that there are gifts specific to autistic students that enrich the university system, scholarship, and the world as a whole.
Cannabis, Alcohol, and the South African Student – On Sale
Adolescent Drug Use, 1974-1985
Du Toit examines the results of two surveys which he made a decade apart among high school students of Black, Indian, White, and Colored backgrounds. The initial survey showed some acceptance of the use of these substances among a small proportion of high school students but a high degree of intolerance of such use by the majority.…
The Children of Africa Confront AIDS
From Vulnerability to Possibility
Edited by Arvind Singhal and W. Stephen Howard
AIDS is now the leading cause of death in Africa, where twenty-eight million people are HIV-positive, and where some twelve million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. In Zimbabwe, 45 percent of children under the age of Wve are HIV-positive, and the epidemic has shortened life expectancy by twenty-two years.…
The Guide to EKG Interpretation
Revised Edition
By John Brose, John C. Auseon, Daniel Waksman and Michael J. Jarosick
Practical guide for primary care physicians, students, nurses, physician’s assistants, and anyone else who interprets electrocardiograms as part of his or her practice.
Kampala Women Getting By – On Sale
Wellbeing in the Time of AIDS
What do ordinary women in an African city do in the face of “serious enough” infections in themselves and signs of acute illness in their young children? How do they manage? What does it take to get by? How do they maintain the wellbeing of the household in a setting without what would be considered as basic health provision in an American or European city?Professor Wallman focuses on women in a densely-populated part of Kampala called Kamwokya.…
The Political Economy of Health in Africa
Edited by Toyin Falola and Dennis Ityavyar
This book examines the major phases in the history of health services in Africa and treats health as an integral aspect of the deepening crisis in Africa’s underdevelopment. One important thesis is that Western delivery systems have made health care less accessible for most people.…
The Radiology Handbook
A Pocket Guide to Medical Imaging
Designed for busy medical students, The Radiology Handbook is a quick and easy reference for any practitioner who needs information on ordering or interpreting images. The book is divided into three parts: - Part I presents a table, organized from head to toe, with recommended imaging tests for common clinical conditions.…
A Second Voice
A Century of Osteopathic Medicine in Ohio
Doctors of osteopathy today practice side by side with medical doctors, employing the same diagnostic and curative tools of scientific medicine- with a difference. A Second Voice: A Century of Osteopathic Medicine in Ohio is the story of that difference.…
Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe
Based on the author’s fieldwork among the people of Zezuru, this study focuses on children as clients and as healers in training. In Reynolds’s ethnographic investigation of possession and healing, she pays particular attention to the way healers are identified and authenticated in communities, and how they are socialized in the use of medicinal plants, dreams, and ritual healing practices.…
