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Dragon Within the Gates: The Once and Future AIDS Epidemic
by Joseph, Stephen C
- Used
- first
- Condition
- good, good
- ISBN 10
- 0881849057
- ISBN 13
- 9780881849059
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1992. First Edition. First? Printing. good, good. 272, bibliography, index, minor page rippling at rear, edges soiled. This is a knowledgeable and compassionate overview of the AIDS pandemic. Dr. Dr. Joseph enlarges the discussion of this vital subject by telling thefascinating story of how epidemics occur and survive and by candidly addressing the ongoing clash between two valid but competing values--civil rights and public health. A physician's analysis of the origins of the virus that causes AIDS, how it spread from Africa to the rest of the world, who is most at risk, the political and social resistance--especially from the gay community--to medicine's advisories on how to avoid the virus, and his resultant predictions of a far greater disaster to come than that whichhas so far occurred.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47245
- Title
- Dragon Within the Gates: The Once and Future AIDS Epidemic
- Author
- Joseph, Stephen C
- Book Condition
- Used - good, good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. First? Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0881849057
- ISBN 13
- 9780881849059
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Homosexuals, HIV/AIDS, Drug Abuse, Social Services, Bisexual, Crack Cocaine, Drug Treatment, Heroin Addicts, Public Health
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