Understanding Herpes (Understanding Health & Sickness) [Paperback]

Lawrence Raymond Stanberry (Author)

Book Description

Series: Understanding Health & Sickness | Publication Date: January 1998

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.

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

About the Author

Lawrence R. Stanberry, MD and Ph D, is chair of pediatrics and director of the Sealy Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. He has served on numerous advisory and review panels and was the chair of the Vaccine Study Section at the National Institutes of Health. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 116 pages
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi (January 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578060419
• ISBN-13: 978-1578060412
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,694,788 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #53 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Disorders & Diseases > Herpes

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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

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

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This review is from: Understanding Herpes (Understanding Health & Sickness) (Hardcover)

* 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

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Terri Warren "HSV Expert" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Understanding Herpes (Understanding Health & Sickness) (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.