AIDS: What Does It Mean to You? [Library Binding]

Margaret O. Hyde (Author), Elizabeth O. Forsyth (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1992

Explores the nature of AIDS, its causes, ways of spreading, and effects on the lives of its victims, and discusses how misunderstanding of the disease may complicate the situation as it continues to spread.

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Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 6 Up-The authors have updated a title now in its fifth edition. This revision offers much more detailed information on the processes of infection and progress of the disease within the body than the previous edition. However, after stating that AIDS is a danger to the general public, the authors seem to minimize that danger. In relating a story of a peer-support system sponsored by the Gay Men's Health Crisis, the authors write, "Bob reminded Stewart that lifestyles do not cause disease, germs do." This is after a series of warnings about the necessity for lifestyle changes! Readers may question the authors' statement that "AIDS has helped many people to be more accepting of homosexuality...if it had not been for AIDS, many schools would not have introduced discussion of sexual orientation in sex education programs." No evidence is presented that shows a cause-and-effect relationship between the two parts of this statement. However, this volume is valuable for its statistics; its chapters on the history of the epidemic here and abroad; and for its coverage of social aspects, such as care of children of HIV parents, child AIDS victims; and the response of hospitals and other health facilities. The earlier edition is still useful. Karen Manning's AIDS (21st Century, 1995) emphasizes the social aspects of the disease.
Libby K. White, Schenectady County Library, NY
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Library Binding: 117 pages
• Publisher: Walker & Company; 4 Rev Sub edition (December 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802782035
• ISBN-13: 978-0802782038
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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