Medical

In der medizinischen Versorgung der HIV-Infektion wurden große Erfolge erzielt. Dennoch bleiben große Probleme, da nicht nur die Zahl der Erkrankten zunimmt, sondern auch neue Herausforderungen erkennbar werden. Hierzu gehört das Analkarzinom, das bis zu 100-mal häufiger im Vergleich zur HIV-negativen Bevölkerung auftritt.

Marko Schünemann widmet sich in dem vorliegenden Band der Diagnostik von Vorstufen des Analkarzinoms, der analen intraepithelialen Neoplasie. Mit Hilfe einer neuen endoskopischen Methode wird versucht, die anorektale Bildgebung zu optimieren und hierdurch die Effektivität der Karzinomvorsorge für HIV-Infizierte zu verbessern.

Infektionskrankheiten wie AIDS, Tuberkulose oder Malaria gehören zu den Haupttodesursachen weltweit. Sie sind nicht nur verantwortlich für das Leid von Millionen Menschen, sondern auch für Schäden an Wirtschaft und Sozialgefüge.

Die Schriftenreihe Infektiologie versucht, einen Beitrag zur Bekämpfung dieser Krankheiten zu leisten. Ergebnisse der Grundlagenforschung, klinische Anwendungen sowie gesundheitspolitische Bezüge kommen zur Darstellung.

Drawing on rich and poignant interviews with mothers who have been diagnosed HIV-positive, Contradicting Maternity provides a rare perspective of motherhood from the mother’s point of view. Whereas motherhood is often assumed to be a secondary identity compared to the central figure of the child, this book reverses the focus, arguing that maternal experience is important in its own right. The book explores the situation in which two very powerful identities, those of motherhood and of being HIVpositive, collide in the same moment. This collision takes place at the interface of complex, and often split, social and personal meanings concerning the sanctity of motherhood and the anxieties of HIV. The book offers an interpretation of how these personal and social meanings resonate with, and also fail to encompass, the experiences surrounding HIV positive mothers. Photographs, academic literature and the accounts of real women are read with both a psychodynamic and discursive eye, highlighting the contradictions within maternal experience, but also between maternal experience and the social imagination. Contradicting Maternity will appeal to scholars, students and practitioners in psychology, the social sciences and the health professions. The sensitive and readable analysis will also be of interest to mothers, whether HIV-positive or not.

In this thought-provoking portrait of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the world’s largest HIV/AIDS medical care provider, award-winning journalist Patrick Range McDonald reveals the nonprofit’s unlikely rise from a feisty grassroots organization during the 1980s AIDS crisis in Los Angeles to its position today as an aggressive, global leader in the ongoing fight to control HIV and AIDS. This riveting story highlights the motivations behind AHF’s life-saving efforts, its battles against (and alliances with) governments and various political establishments, and its work today to provide free HIV treatment and prevention services to vulnerable, lower-income people in more than thirty countries.

With unrestricted, insider access, McDonald follows AHF for a year as it clashes with the Obama administration, the state of Nevada, and the World Health Organization. He interviews AHF’s key players, including firebrand president Michael Weinstein, and he travels to AHF outposts around the globe, from Miami to Uganda, Cambodia to Russia, Estonia to South Africa. Along the way, McDonald discovers that AHF is a passionate, smart, and tenacious “people power” organization that brings hope and change to nearly all corners of the world.

Beyond its work as a highly effective global AIDS organization, the AHF story also provides a blueprint for every kind of righteous rebel who wants to make the world a better place.

Psychotherapy and ethnography are jointly employed to produce an account of HIV-positive children's lives (and deaths) in Zimbabwe that is sensitive to emotions and their social contexts.

The study explores the lives of children growing up HIV-positive in the eastern Zimbabwean town of Mutare at a time of severe crisis in the state, marked by impoverishment, organized violence and mass death. This ethnography grewout of a psychotherapeutic engagement with a group of children living with HIV.

The study examines children's experiences through the institutional domains of family and kin, clinics and other forms of healing, churches and religious practices, and experiences of dying and bereavement. Against patrilineal norms, much daily caring occurs in mothers' families. Clinics continue to offer partial western medical care despite daunting resource constraints. Western medicine sits on older templates of 'traditional' and 'spiritual' healing. Anti-retrovirals and other basic medicines are available but may exacerbate domestic discord and fail to meet more obvious physical symptoms. Children and their families appear to prefer spiritual alternatives to medical care, perhaps partly as a result of the severe limitations placed on the latter. A wide variety of religious practices, primarily Christian in a plethora of forms, flourish in the context. Dying may come to be seen by children as preferable to continued struggle against severe adversity. Child deaths are deeply imbued with religious practice and given voice through religious idioms.

Ross Parsons has extensive experience as a psychotherapist, a writer and a social researcher. He lives in Mutare and teaches anthropology and psychology at Africa University.

Weaver Press: Zimbabwe and Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia)

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1956.

What to Do About AIDS: Physicians and Mental Health Professionals Discuss the Issues, edited by Leon McKusick, brings together leading clinicians and researchers at a pivotal moment in the history of the epidemic. First published when HIV/AIDS was still poorly understood and heavily stigmatized, the volume captures the urgency and uncertainty of the early response. Contributors from medicine, psychiatry, psychology, and public health address not only the biological dimensions of the disease but also its profound social and psychological impacts. Their shared aim is to clarify what was then known about transmission, treatment, and prognosis while offering practical guidance for health professionals suddenly confronted with a new and devastating illness.

Framed by McKusick’s introduction, the collection foregrounds the interdependence of medical and mental health approaches. Essays examine clinical care, counseling and support for patients and families, ethical challenges around confidentiality and discrimination, and the public health necessity of education and prevention. The book also highlights the complex intersections of sexuality, politics, and stigma that shaped both the spread of HIV and the societal response to it. By insisting that physicians and mental health workers address the epidemic collaboratively and compassionately, What to Do About AIDS helped lay the groundwork for integrated models of care that remain influential today. Scholarly yet accessible, it stands as both a historical document of the early AIDS crisis and a prescient call for humane, multidisciplinary engagement with one of the defining public health challenges of the late twentieth century.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.