Until the Cure: Caring for Women with HIV (Yale Fastback Series) [Paperback]

Ms. Ann Kurth (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Yale Fastback Series | Publication Date: November 24, 1993

This is a text on HIV infection in women that provides clinical, epidemiological, social and personal perspectives on the disease. Although the AIDS epidemic has generated world-wide concern, very little attention has been paid to its impact on the increasing numbers of women who have been infected. Women with HIV disease are in many, ways a unique group: they can have different clinical symptoms than men, and because they are the ones who bear and usually care for children, they have different psychosocial concerns and needs. This book - written by experts in the fields of law, medicine, nursing, public health, social work, ethics, and psychiatry, and enriched by, personal stories of women who have been living with the disease is a guide to the medical and social treatment of women with HIV. The book begins by discussing clinical care for women with HIV, providing information on how the disease affects women and what type of gynaecological treatment, reproductive counselling and health, obstetrical management, and neuropsychiatric considerations are important. Authors examine why women have been excluded from research trials of new therapies and argue that women must be included in future trials. One chapter explores ethical issues, such as the reproductive rights of women with HIV, and another is devoted to legal conflicts surrounding such issues as discrimination, government benefits, and custody rights. The final third of the book deals with ways to deliver support services to HIV positive women and their families and describes a family-centered, community-based, comprehensive care model. The book concludes with suggestions for programmes and policies that will lessen the incidence of HIV.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

A collection of essays by doctors, social workers and scholars about the implications of AIDS for women, this focuses professional concern on an important but neglected subject. The perspectives and the approaches vary. In "Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Infection," Kathy M. Sanders, of Massachusetts General Hospital's psychiatry department, surveys the nature of AIDS Dementia Complex and nonorganic psychiatric disorders in female AIDS patients; and in "Legal Considerations," Michele Zavros, project director of the American Bar Association's AIDS Coordination Project, looks at the legal rights of women with AIDS, and the challenges faced by those who are mothers or who have few material resources. Other pieces consider the "matriarchy" of female minority AIDS caregivers; the ethics of AIDS for women (e.g., regarding conception); and the history of clinical trials for HIV-infected women. At heart, the book is meant for, as well as written by, health care professionals. But because documentation is scarce--and needed--others could and should read it.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Despite the rapidly increasing incidence of AIDS in women, little research has been done in this area. Gena Corea offered a historical account in The Invisible Epidemic: The Story of Women and AIDS ( LJ 11/1/92), but this book is the first to deal with the clinical treatment of female AIDS patients. Chapters are contributed by healthcare providers in various disciplines, with each chapter covering a specific aspect of patient care for women with HIV/AIDS. Protocols for general medical, gynecological, neuropsychiatric, and community healthcare are provided, along with information about the legal, ethical, and epidemiological aspects of this disease. Quotations from patients and practitioners add a human dimension to this medical textbook, which is rounded off by a resource list of organizations and information sources and an extensive bibliography of scientific literature. This unique, outstanding work belongs in all health science and large public library collections.
- Barbara M. Bibel, Oakland P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press (November 24, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300058357
• ISBN-13: 978-0300058352
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,532,360 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)