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And the Band Played On
by Randy Shilts
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic is a nonfiction book written by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy Shilts, published in 1987. It chronicles the discovery and spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) with a special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what was initially perceived as a gay disease.
Epitaphs For the Living
by Billy Howard
357 Epitaphs for the Living: Words and Images in the Time of AIDS is a book of photographs by Billy Howard, published in 1989 by Southern Methodist University Press in Dallas. The photographs are mostly portraits and depict persons infected with AIDS. Underneath each picture is a copy of a handwritten message by the subject, either telling an abbreviated version of the story of their illness or expressing thanks to the family and friends who have stood by them.
Disease & Illness Books & Ephemera
You Don't have to be Your Mother: A Breast Cancer Memoir
by Feldman, Gayle
Paperback. Very Good.
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NZ$1.68
Aids: You Just Think You're Safe
by unknown author
Unknown. Unknown Binding. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Cover boards are in good condition. Interior pages are clean and free of markings. Binding is tight. Endpaper has previous owner's notations. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$39.38
Ketoconazole in the Management of Fungal Disease
by Levine, H. B. (Edited by)
New York, New York: Adis Press, 1982. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Used Book: Hard Cover Dust jacket has light shelf wear, with rubbing to the spine ends/covers. Slight color chipping to the upper jacket spine end and a 1/2-inch closed tear to the lower spine end. Book has slight shelf wear and lean, with rubbing to the spine ends and cover
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NZ$24.82
"Chest Pain"
by Willis Hurst, J & Morris, Douglas C (Editors)
New York: Futura. 2001. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition. No dustjacket. An excellent copy. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 514 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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NZ$19.89
![[Solicitor General and Acting U.S. Attorney General Henry M. Hoyt Officially Opines on Medical Issues of Immigration Law and an Immigration Case before the Supreme Court; with Additional Letter]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/601/573/1321573601.0.b.jpg)
[Solicitor General and Acting U.S. Attorney General Henry M. Hoyt Officially Opines on Medical Issues of Immigration Law and an Immigration Case before the Supreme Court; with Additional Letter]
by Henry M. Hoyt
Department of Justice. Washington, D.C. 1906 to 1907. Three carbon letters, signed. [1], [5], [1]pages, respectively. Foxing; else very good. Three letters, all incoming to Philadelphia attorney J. Whitaker Thompson, United States attorney. The bulk of the material is from Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr. (1856-1910) who served as United States Solicitor General from 1903 to 1909. The best content is a 5-page letter focusing on legal issues concerning illegal aliens and contagious diseases. The letter concerns a...
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NZ$599.20
Lifegifts: The Real Story of Organ Transplants
by Stiller, Calvin
Toronto, Canada: Stoddart Publishing Co. Ltd, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used Book: Hard Cover Some yellowing to edgesof dust jacket, light wear to boards and pages. Remainder mark.
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NZ$17.12
AIDS: Principles, Practices, and Politics (Death Education, Aging and Health Care)
Paperback. Very Good.
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NZ$164.41
The Wounded Storyteller Body, Illness, and Ethics
by Frank, Arthur W
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 1995. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. xviii, 213 pages. Both the collective portrait of those who suffer from some type of illness or disability and a cogent analysis of their stories within a larger framework of narrative theory. Drawing on the work of authors such as Oliver Sacks, Anatole Broyard, Norman Cousins, and Audre Lorde, as well as the people he met during the years he spent among different illness groups, Frank...
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NZ$19.89
Epidemiology of Cerebral Palsy in the Netherlands
by Wichers, Marc
Rotterdam: Erasmus Universiteit. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. 2011. [First English Edition]. Illustrated laminated softback card cover. 240mm x 170mm (9" x 7"). 136pp. .
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NZ$84.94
Diamonds Unlimited
by Burgess, P.H.E
London: John Long. 1960. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. DJ is edgeworn with a closed tear to front panel. Book has a small faint stain to upper edge of title page. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 191 Pages. The memoirs of Chief Security Officer at a Tanganyika diamond mine. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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NZ$33.15
Urine, Urinary Deposits and Calculi; and on the Treatment of Urinary Diseases. With Numerous Illustrations, and Tables for the Clinical Examination of Urine
by Beale, Lionel S
London: John Churchill & Sons. G : in 6ood condition. Cover rubbed and marked. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. 1864. Second Edition. Brown hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). xxiv, 439pp + plates. 24 b/w plates. .
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NZ$118.92
Autographed Note Signed with a photograph
by LAVALLE, Carlos Robertson (1874 - 1956)
Buenos Aires, 1926. unbound. Autographed note signed with a mounted 4.75 x 3.75-inch" photograph, in the form of a greeting card. The photo and note together measure 5 x 7.75 inches. Buenos Aires, November 3, 1926, in Spanish, thanking the recipient for his kind words of encouragement. Lavalle has signed with his full (scarce) signature. Excellent condition.<br/> <br/> Prominent Argentine surgeon and a pioneer in the search for a cure for tuberculosis. His groundbreaking paper...
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NZ$145.52
Private Acts, Social Consequences: AIDS And the Politics of Public Health
by Bayer, Ronald
Rutgers University Press. Good. 1991. Paperback. 0813516242 . Exlibrary with usual library markings. Taped title page; 302 pages .
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NZ$13.70
And the Band Played on: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by Shilts, Randy
Hardback. Very Good.
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NZ$31.37
Sad Autographed Letter Signed on the death of his daughter Louisa
by WOODWARD, Charles (1793 - 1869)
Middletown, 1852. unbound. 3 pages (front and back), 10 x 7.75 inches, Middletown, October 3, 1852, to his nephew Dr. Rufus Woodward, in small part: "...I shall not be able to give you a very intelligible description of your cousin Louisa's last sickness and I have no very clear idea what was the cause of her death there was no examination made. She has always been subject to a good deal of pain in the head and more or less affliction of the stomach. Near two weeks before her death she was...
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NZ$513.60
Coming Up For Air: The History of the Asthma Foundation of New South Wales
by Smith, Babette
Sydney: Rosenberg Publishing. 2003. Octavo Size. Very Good condition. Some rubbing to corners. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 304 pages. The powerful story of the energy and determination of two mothers in the 1960. An evocative social history and a template for the organisational politics that can threaten the success of a venture. This is a no-holds-barred account of a clash between ideas and egos, of the conflict, which ensued when dedicated amateurs outraged a conservative profession....
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NZ$27.63
Current Controversies in the Anxiety Disorders
by RAPEE, Ronald M
New York: Guilford Press, 1996. hardcover. fine/fine. 388pp. Thick 8vo, black boards, d.w. New York: The Guilford Press, (1996). A fine copy.<br/><br/>
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NZ$51.36
Warrior Princess
by Zulu, Princess Kasune with Belinda Collins)
Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Books. 2009. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition. Previous owner's details on label to upper corner of front free end paper. 272 pages. Fighting for life and against AIDS in Africa and beyond. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Softcover.
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NZ$15.47
Hypothyroidism: The Unseen Illness
by Barnes M.D., Broda O. (Author); Galton, Lawrence (Author)
New York, New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1976. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used Book: Hard Cover Standard used condition. Reading copy or better.
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NZ$30.82
Autographed Letter Signed about Leukemia
by SCHICK, Bela (1877 - 1967)
New York, 1961. unbound. 1 page on personal stationery, 7 x 6 inches, New York, October 21, 1961, in part: "There is not satisfactory progress in heading off Leukemia...you may write Dr. Sidney Farben who makes the most encouraging study about Leukemia in childhood..." Accompanied by the original handwritten, postmarked envelope. One horizontal fold; tiny crease in the upper right corner. Very good(+) condition.<br/> <br/> Hungarian-American pediatrician who gained international...
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NZ$342.40
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
by Monette, Paul (Author)
New York, New York: Avon Books, 1990. Later Printing. Softcover. Good+/No Jacket. Used Book: Trade Paperback Standard used condition. Reading copy or better.
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NZ$15.41
The Luxury of Time
by Tomlinson, Jane
Simon & Schuster. First UK edition-first printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Near fine condition.Simon & Schuster,2005.First UK edition-first printing((1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the back cover) with Dj(a couple of small nicks,crease and scratch on the edges of the Dj cover),both in near fine condition.Illustrated with colour photos.Nice and clean pages as new with light shelf wear on the outer edges,very small mark and nick...
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NZ$24.00
Epitaphs For The Living: Words And Images In The Time Of Aids
by Howard, Billy, Photographs
Southern Methodist University. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0870742892 . Book has very light shelfwear; DJ has light toning, 1/2" tear to rear at spine midway down, small wrinkle to bottom spine, light indents from using book to write on; b/w photos; 160 pages .
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NZ$51.27
Scarce Typed Letter Signed
by ROFFO, Angel
Argentina, 1924. unbound. Typed letter in Spanish, signed "A.H. Roffo." Oblong 8vo, 1 page, 5.75 x 9 inches, March 12, 1924, on his very scarce "Instituto De Medicina Experimental" letterhead, sending salutations to his friend and distinguished doctor Alejandra Zorillo of San Martin, promising to send a photograph soon. Vertical fold; minor tear at the top right-hand margin; small stain. Very good(-) condition.<br/> <br/> Groundbreaking Argentine cancer doctor who made...
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NZ$299.60
