Learning from HIV and AIDS (Biosocial Society Symposium Series, Series Number 15) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521004705 ISBN 13: 9780521004701

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

This study brings together health-care professionals and scholars from a variety of disciplines who seek to understand, and prevent, the transmission of HIV. The biological and social factors concerned with the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS has resulted in dedicated research from each of the disciplines and provided unique insights into the disease. By assembling their insights in one multidisciplinary volume, this book provides a more complete picture of the complex disease, and demonstrates why preventing the spread of HIV will require interdisciplinary collaboration.

About this title

Book Description:

Leaning from HIV/AIDS brings together health-care professionals and academics in a variety of disciplines seeking to understand, and prevent the transmission of, HIV. The biological and social factors underlying the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS have resulted in dedicated research from each of these disciplines--each providing unique insights into the disease. By bringing these insights together in one multidisciplinary volume, this book aims to both provide a more complete picture of this complex disease, and to demonstrate why preventing the spread of HIV will require interdisciplinary collaboration.

About the Author:

GEORGE ELLISON is Professor of Public Health and Director of the Institute of Primary Care and Public Health at South Bank University, London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0521004705
• ISBN 13: 9780521004701
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 318
• Editor: Ellison George, Parker Melissa, Campbell Catherine