Understanding Herpes (Understanding Health and Sickness Series) (Hardcover)

by Lawrence R. Stanberry (Author) "The word "herpes" means different things to different people..." (more)
Key Phrases: regarding genital herpes, silent recurrences, people with genital herpes, United States (more...)

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Product Description
This book is aimed at anyone who wants to needs to know more about herpes simplex viruses, two complex microbes capable of causing a variety of infections including genital herpes, a common chronic sexually transmitted disease. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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A concise overview of advances and resources --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 116 pages
• Publisher: Univ Press of Mississippi (March 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578060400
• ISBN-13: 978-1578060405
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,283,659 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Medically Useful, Personally Dry, April 19, 2000

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* In general, this book helped me and my partner to understand the basic clinical facts and some lesser known clinical information about herpes, transmission, symptoms, treatment, etc. * Re: transmission: The author offers perspectives which surprisingly contradict some commonly held ideas about what is "safe" and "not safe", which makes this book particularly useful, if not a bit scarey. * Re: legal issues: The section on disease transmission and the ethics of disclosure is also well done and important. The author cites a case where someone who was lied to about a partner's STD status was awarded $600,000 in damages for pain and suffering, given the lifetime effects of herpes transmitted without honest disclosure. * Re: approach and tone: The book's appeal would have been increased with a more personal tone, with the author's voice addressed to us folks out here grappling with these difficult issues, and often at risk from partial knowledge and word-of-mouth guidelines. As it is the book is rather dispassionate, as if the busy physician author had transcribed a series of medical school lectures. * Re: also needed: Colored photographs of what typical outbreaks look like would have been very useful, as an addition to his useful black & white line drawings of virus transmission details. A good bit more could also have been provided about details of "safer sex" and relationship issues since we most need that out here in the real world. * Re: bottom line: As a clinical medical fact source it is an excellent and useful book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A colleague's perspective, March 8, 2006

By	Terri Warren "HSV Expert" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Understanding Herpes (Understanding Health and Sickness Series) (Paperback)

This book is accurate, easy to read, and written by a very well respected HSV researcher. It is slightly varied from most herpes books because is told from the perspective of a pediatrician. The size makes it approachable and easy to read in a short time, too.