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Seductive Delusions: How Everyday People Catch STIs
Jill Grimes
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Description for Seductive Delusions: How Everyday People Catch STIs
Paperback. Making emotionally and physically safe decisions about sex is easier when you know how STIs are spread, how to avoid getting one, what their symptoms are, and how they are diagnosed and treated. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: VFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. .
A 2009 Book of the Year, USA Book News "It can't happen to me." Many high school students and young adults, seduced by their sense of invincibility, are stunned when they are diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI). But the fact is that anyone can catch an STI: no age group, social class, economic class, culture, religion, gender, or ethnic group is immune. To drive home the risks and realities of unprotected sex, Dr. Jill Grimes shares real-life stories of young people-medical students, college freshmen, teenagers, young parents, talented entrepreneurs-who have gotten an STI. Dr. Grimes narrates ... Read more
A 2009 Book of the Year, USA Book News "It can't happen to me." Many high school students and young adults, seduced by their sense of invincibility, are stunned when they are diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI). But the fact is that anyone can catch an STI: no age group, social class, economic class, culture, religion, gender, or ethnic group is immune. To drive home the risks and realities of unprotected sex, Dr. Jill Grimes shares real-life stories of young people-medical students, college freshmen, teenagers, young parents, talented entrepreneurs-who have gotten an STI. Dr. Grimes narrates ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421419244
SKU
V9781421419244
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Ref
99-50
About Jill Grimes
Jill Grimes, MD, practices medicine within the Urgent Care Department of the University of Texas at Austin's University Health Services. She is the editor of Sexually Transmitted Disease: An Encyclopedia of Diseases, Prevention, Treatment, and Issues.
Reviews for Seductive Delusions: How Everyday People Catch STIs
Eminently readable – applicable to and appropriate for all ages - this text anticipates and answers questions regarding the length and breadth of our current contemporary Sexually Transmitted Infections. When initially published in 2008 this outstanding text was vital, valuable and much needed; then, when published as a Second Edition in 2016 this text is even more vital, valuable and ... Read more