LITERATURE OF MEDICINE
Reviews and Notes: Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Questions & Answers on AIDS
15 March 1995 | Volume 122 Issue 6 | Page 480
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Questions & Answers on AIDS
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Second edition. Lyn Frumkin and John Leonard. 208 pages. Los Angeles: PMIC; 1994. $6.99.
Arising from "the countless questions" posed to the authors by patients, their families and friends, and health professionals on topics such as the cause of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), its manifestations, its diagnosis, opportunistic infections related to it, and transmission of it. The 133 questions and answers cover the spectrum from "What is AIDS?" to "What are some of the ethnical and social issues posed by the AIDS epidemic?"; the latter is answered in one page. Almost every discussion is referenced, and there is also a glossary. A useful, inexpensive compendium that tells it like it really is and, thus, can be recommended to many.
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