Maya Angelou Resource Library: Health & Science

Because AIDS diversely affects so many different populations, professionals in various settings need information and skills to provide adequate care. Chapters in the three sections of this book include material on AIDS education and primary prevention as well as on programs and settings for HIV service provision. For each of these settings, contributors examine issues that affect the ways in which services are delivered. Discussions include descriptions of the populations served and analysis of the scope of the problem relative to those populations. Contributors also discuss sociopolitical issues as well as how service-setting goals and locations affect delivery and quality of services. Case examples used throughout the book illustrate the material. This volume is designed as a resource text for AIDS service providers (particularly social workers) and educators and, although it may not be "a complete guide to psychosocial intervention," it is certainly an excellent starting point from which to obtain an understanding of the various psychosocial issues related to HIV infection. Appropriate for all academic social science collections, and a required resource for social work libraries.

This text emphasizes the two major themes of adaptation and evolution and their interrelationships with successful behavior, and offers authoritative coverage of molecular genetics, evolutionary theory, primate and human physical evolution and behavior, and modern human adaptation and variation.

For almost two decades, many have viewed the AIDS epidemic as paramount among gay men's health concerns. While never ignoring its centrality, Goldstone reminds his readers that there are myriad other considerations not only for self-identified gay men but for all "men who have sex with men." Among the wide range of sexual practices and concerns Goldstone covers are anal intercourse, sexually transmitted viral and bacterial infections, impotence, oral sex and HIV transmission, as well as recreational and prescription drug use and abuse. He also discusses ancillary cultural issues such as how being monogamous, living in an open relationship or having numerous sexual partners can affect safe sex practices. Goldstone's medical information is up-to-date and accurate; although, as he points out, treatments for AIDS change almost monthly. While the book covers the safety and health aspects of body piercing, its lack of information about the health implications of the wide range of sadomasochistic practices prevalent in the gay male community is a drawback. On the other hand, Goldstone has a positive, nonjudgmental attitude toward sex. This openness, combined with a chatty style (replete with bad jokes and not very subtle innuendo, reminiscent of David Reuben's Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex but without the moralizing), makes Goldstone's book unusually reader-friendly. Includes charts and illustrations.

Original and thought-provoking talks on health and healing, karma and reincarnation, the universality of yoga, and more are included in this collection of works on the topic of realizing God in daily life.

The definitive consumer health reference for women of all ages and ethnic groups, this book encompasses such controversial issues as "managed care" and the insurance industry; breast cancer treatment options; recent developments in contraception; and much more. 150 photos. Charts & graphs throughout.

Although we experience our bodies as solid, they are in fact more like fires that are constantly being consumed and renewed. We grow new stomach linings every five days, for instance. Our skin is new every five weeks. Each year, fully 98 percent of the total number of atoms in our bodies is replaced. Ayurveda gives us the tools to intervene at this quantum level, where we are being created anew each day. Ayurveda tells us that freedom from sickness depends on contacting our own awareness, bringing it into balance, and then extending that balance to the body. Perfect Health provides a complete step-by-step program of mind body medicine tailored to individual needs. A quiz identifies the reader's mind body type: thin, restless Vata; enterprising, efficient Pitta; tranquil, steady Kapha; or any combination of these three. This body type becomes the basis for a specific Ayurvedic program of diet, stress reduction, neuromuscular integration, exercise, and daily routines. The result is a total plan, tailor-made for each individual, to reestablish the body's essential balance with nature; to strengthen the mind body connection; and to use the power of quantum healing to transcend the ordinary limitations of disease and aging--in short, for achieving Perfect Health.