| 1. |  | On the Move
from Thomas Nelson
Price: $9.09
Customer Review:
On the Move is short and brief but the written words are so powerful that it moved congress and even president Bush. Bono used poetic words for his crusade in aiding Africa and he had the opportunity to present it to most powerful men in the United States at breakfast. Not only did he speak from his... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition
from St. Martin's Griffin
Price: $11.53
Customer Review:
I had to read this book in graduate school and begrudgingly started it only to be immediately drawn in, often staying up to 3am reading. Part was because it read like a fast paced, eventful fiction narrative however the sad part was that it documents the reality of the beginning of HIV in the United... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
from Picador
Price: $11.20
Customer Review:
Sontag is spot-on in her analysis of metaphors of AIDS: the military metaphors, the latency metaphors, and the plague metaphors. Her observations are keen and insightful in this regard. It is troubling then, that she seems unwilling to follow her own analysis and that she dismisses "psychological"... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa
from Picador
Price: $10.88
Customer Review:
"As a woman living with HIV," says Beatrice Were of Uganda, "I am often asked whether there will ever be a cure for HIV/AIDS, and my answer is that there is already a cure. It lies in the strength of women, families and communities who support and empower each other to break the silence around AIDS... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
from W. W. Norton
Price: $17.13
Customer Review:
Having recently returned from Malawi where I spent the last two years working in HIV prevention as a Peace Corps Volunteer, I found Elizabeth Pisani's book to be an excellent analysis of the politics driving the mismanagement of HIV prevention and treatment funding around the globe, and an... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic
from Simon & Schuster
Price: $18.46
Customer Review:
The fundamental question that Mr Steinberg wrestles with is why people may choose not to take drugs that may preempt death. His honesty, sensitivity and tenacity enable him to explore the dynamics of a rural South African community in a way that I've not encountered. And yes, the man can write. | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 7. | ![]() | Before Night Falls: A Memoir
from Viking Adult
Customer Review:
My review will be quite simple, this book is... marvelous, magnificent, beautiful, brilliant, painful, poetic, and glorious. Read it!!!!!!!! | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame
from University of California Press
Price: $17.12
Customer Review:
Farmer's excellent historical ethnography of Haitian illness (as seen through the contemporary context of the world AIDS epidemic), proves the necessity of developing anthropological approaches to understanding health systems and implementing medical care. The diagnosis and analysis of sickness,... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Aids to the Examination of the Peripheral Nervous System (Neurology)
from Saunders Ltd.
Price: $30.55
Customer Review:
This is a great book. If you have difficulty with peripheral disorders, it is the book for you. It goes through the anatomy, sensory inovation, etc of each nerve in detail. There is also a little information on dermatomes, etc. Not a really a lot, but just the basics, which will help with... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections
from Joseph Henry Press
Price: $24.95
Customer Review:
I enjoyed this book -- it gives a good overview of many of the viruses facing us, and the issues with our underfunded and ignored health system. I particularly found the chapters on viruses as the root cause of many chronic illnesses to be interesting, and the chapter on West Nile in New York was... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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