This book requires no biology prerequisite and is the most comprehensive, authoritative, accurate, and up-to-date book on HIV/AIDS currently available as it is updated each and every year. It presents the entire 22-year chronology of the AIDS pandemic in a reasonable, logical, and scientific manner that interweaves biological, clinical, social, and legal discoveries in a uniquely readable presentation. The author considers what causes AIDS, biological characteristics of the AIDS virus, immunology of HIV disease, preventing the transmission of HIV, testing for human immunodeficiency virus, and AIDS and society.
"The HIV epidemic animates this collection of essays by a noted artist, writer, and activist. 'So total was the burden of illness - mine and other - that the only viable response, other than to cease making art entirely, was to adjust to the gravity of the predicament by using the crisis as a lens', writes Gregg Biodowirtz, a film - and videomaker whose most well-known works, 'Fast trip', 'Long drop' (1993) and 'Habit' (2001), address AIDS globally and personalily. In the 'AIDS crisis is ridiculous' - the title essay is inspired by Charles Ludlam, founder of the Ridiculous Theater Company - Bordowitz follows in the tradition of artist-writer Robert Smithson and Yvonne Rainer by making writing an integral part of an artistic practice. Bordowitz has left his earliest writings for the most part unchanged - to preserve, he says, 'both the youthful exuberance and palpable sense of fear' created by the early days of the AIDS crisis. After these early essays, the writing becomes more experimental; included here is a selection of Bordowitz's columns from the journal 'Documents', 'New York was yeasterday'. Finally, in his newest essays he reformulates early themes, and, in 'My postmodernism' (written for 'Artforum's' fortieth anniversary issue) and 'More operative assumptions' (written especially for this book), he reexamines the underlaying ideas of his practice and sums up his theoretical concerns." - back cover.
Rarely does a book come along with a renewed understanding on the way certain issues are treated especially the Churchs response to HIV/AIDS. Other books talk about the social, economic issues in relation to HIV/AIDS, but this book goes further to show the theological basis of the churchs response. With evidence from the history of the main line churches, Mageto exposes the suppressed views within the mission churches on the HIV/AIDS. The book opens up yet another way of understanding the churchs response to HIV/AIDS so far and shows new ways of looking at the pandemic in particular those who are infected and affected.
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