AIDS & HIV in perspective : a guide to understanding the virus and its consequences /

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Author / Creator:Schoub, B. D.
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Description:xx, 269 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1628936
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Other title:AIDS and HIV in perspective.
ISBN:0521452317 (hardback)
0521458749 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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505 0 0 |t The history of AIDS.  |t The discovery of the causal agent of AIDS.  |t The origins of AIDS.  |t The dimensions of the fearsomeness of AIDS --  |g 1.  |t What is AIDS and how does it manifest itself?  |t Some AIDS definitions.  |t 'Western AIDS' and 'African AIDS'.  |t The components of AIDS.  |t The clinical stages of HIV infection.  |t AIDS classification systems.  |t HIV and the central nervous system.  |t AIDS in children.  |t The prognosis and course of HIV disease --  |g 2.  |t The AIDS virus.  |t What is a virus?  |t The AIDS virus - HIV --  |g 3.  |t The disease mechanisms of HIV.  |t The immune system.  |t Properties of HIV related to virus-host interactions.  |t The natural history of HIV infection and AIDS.  |t Conclusion - how does the puny HIV virus cause lethal AIDS? --  |g 4.  |t The transmission of HIV infection.  |t Mechanisms of transmission.  |t Sexual transmission of HIV.  |t HIV transmission by blood exchange.  |t Vertical transmission - mother-child.  |t The relative risks of HIV transmission.  |t The risks of HIV transmission in perspective --  |g 5.  |t The AIDS test.  |t History of the AIDS test.  |t Principles of laboratory tests for viral diagnosis.  |t Reliability and accuracy of serological tests.  |t The laboratory diagnosis of HIV infection.  |t The laboratory diagnosis of HIV-2.  |t Tests for the evaluation of immunological function.  |t Laboratory tests in practice.  |t The benefits of the AIDS test --  |g 6.  |t The anti-AIDS drugs.  |t The development of antiviral drugs.  |t Therapy of AIDS and HIV infection.  |t The development of anti-HIV drugs.  |t The status of AIDS drugs.  |t Zidovudine (AZT) therapy in AIDS.  |t The potential for a drug cure of AIDS --  |g 7.  |t The quest for the AIDS vaccine.  |t The development of viral vaccines.  |t Obstacles to the development of AIDS vaccines.  |t Experimental animal models in the development of AIDS vaccines.  |t Human trials of potential AIDS vaccines.  |t The future of AIDS vaccines --  |g 8.  |t The ethics of AIDS.  |t Public health legislation for communicable diseases.  |t Ethico-legal approaches to balancing community rights and individual rights.  |t AIDS ethical issues in medical practice.  |t The ethics of the cost of AIDS.  |t The religious dimensions of AIDS --  |g 9.  |t Measuring the dimensions of the AIDS epidemic - AIDS epidemiology.  |t Epidemiology, surveillance and monitoring.  |t Instruments of surveillance.  |t The executive arm of epidemiology.  |t Epidemiological methodology in the AIDS epidemic.  |t The global status of AIDS.  |t The dynamics of the AIDS epidemic.  |t Forecasting the future --  |g 10.  |t Conclusion - outlook for the future.  |t A worst case scenario.  |t A more realistic appraisal.  |t Optimistic possibilities. 
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