AEGiS-BKREV: AIDS, Health, and Mental Health: A Primary Sourcebook

AIDS, Health, and Mental Health: A Primary Sourcebook

Brunner/Mazel, Inc., 19 Union Square Sets, New York, NY 10003. 343p., bibliog., index. ISBN 0-87630-688-1. $38.95. (Contributors to this volume, all from the Univ. of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry: Judith Landau-Stanton, Colleen D. Clements, Robert E. Cole, Ann Z. Griepp, Alexander F. Tartaglia, Jackie Nudd, Elisabet Espaillat-Pina, M. Duncan Stanton)
Judith Landau-Stanton, Colleen D. Clements. 1993.

"This volume is the story of our personal and professional struggles with HIV infection and its prevention. We attempt to normalize and mainstream HIV disease so that we can look at it as we have looked at other dreaded diseases: tuberculosis, polio, pancreatic or ovarian cancer, Huntington's, malaria, Creutzfeldt-Jakob, or Ebola fever." The contributors have all had much experience in AIDS training programs and put forth that experience for others to use in their day to day work with HIV patients. Chapter 1 is an overview of how HIV infection is currently viewed, chapter two looks at three patients as individuals and not as biological systems, chapter three looks at the risks of acquiring HIV and chapter four covers the risks that health care professionals are subjected to. Chapter five presents for the health care professional, a method for staying up to date about HIV, chapter six is a medical summary of diagnostic and treatment knowledge and techniques, while chapter seven goes into the neuropsychiatric and general psychiatric aspects of HIV disease. Chapter eight discusses the Rochester Model of family systems therapy, chapter nine explores the community aspects of the disease and chapter ten develops a theory of ethics called systems ethics and applies it to AIDS clinical cases and policy decisions.

This is a very well written book that discusses many aspects of HIV that are important for all medical personnel to know. Each chapter is unique with a wealth of information. For any health care provider who encounters HIV, this would be an excellent book for them to read for information that can be used in working with these patients. Counselors should make this a must-read book. It should be in all academic and medical libraries as well as large public libraries. (H. Robert Malinowsky)

Keywords: Social Aspects, Psychological Aspects, Clinical Management, Epidemiology

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