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Restoring Hope: Decent Care in the Midst of HIV/AIDS
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Description for Restoring Hope: Decent Care in the Midst of HIV/AIDS
Hardcover. This volume is a call to re-examine assumptions about what care is and how it be practised. Rather than another demand for radical reform, it makes the case for thinking clearly and critically. It urges people living with HIV to become full partners in designing and implementing their own care and for caregivers to accept them in this role. Editor(s): Karpf, Ted; Ferguson, Todd; Swift, Robin; Lazarus, Jeffrey V. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFH2; MBN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 169 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
This volume is a call to re-examine assumptions about what care is and how it be practised. Rather than another demand for radical reform, it makes the case for thinking clearly and critically. It urges people living with HIV to become full partners in designing and implementing their own care and for caregivers to accept them in this role.
This volume is a call to re-examine assumptions about what care is and how it be practised. Rather than another demand for radical reform, it makes the case for thinking clearly and critically. It urges people living with HIV to become full partners in designing and implementing their own care and for caregivers to accept them in this role.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
162
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230223387
SKU
V9780230223387
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Ref
99-15
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THE REVEREND CANON TED KARPF is the partnerships officer in the Office of the Director-General's Representative for Partnerships and UN Reform at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. J. TODD FERGUSON is Research Associate, Ethics Group, American Medical Association, USA. ROBIN YAEGER SWIFT is Director of the Clergy Health Initiative, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. ... Read more
Reviews for Restoring Hope: Decent Care in the Midst of HIV/AIDS
'HIV/AIDS is devastating the world, especially the vulnerable and the poor, who bear the brunt of humiliation, discrimination and stigma. Restoring Hope is a heartfelt plea from different faiths, and philosophical and ethical perspectives for decent care, which treats people living with HIV as collaborators. It is a plea, I pray we heed.' - Desmond Tutu, Nobel Laureate ... Read more