Peter Piot is the director of the renowned London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a professor of global health. He is a former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, the founding executive director of UNAIDS, and co-discoverer of the Ebola virus, and former president of the International AIDS Society. He has published more than 500 scientific papers and articles and sixteen books, including his memoirs, No Time To Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses.Laurence Garey is an anatomist, former member the Court of Examiners, Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the Council of the Anatomical Society. He has translated works from French and German, including Jean-Didier Vincent and Pierre-Marie Lledo”s The Custom-Made Brain: Cerebral Plasticity, Regeneration, and Enhancement. He is an associate collaborator with the Institute of the History of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Peter Piot: AIDS Between Science and Politics
Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), recounts his experience as a clinician, scientist, and activist fighting the disease from its earli …
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Peter Piot: AIDS as an International Political Issue
Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), reports on the influence of civil society in international relations and traditional partisan divid …
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Sharon Abramowitz & Ichiro Kawaki: Medical Humanitarianism
Medical humanitarianism—medical and other health-related initiatives undertaken in conditions born of conflict, neglect, or disaster —has a prominent and growing presence in international development …
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Myron S. Cohen & Lawrence Corey: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Fourth Edition
The most respected, all-in-one global STD reference – now in full-color With a level of detail and scientific rigor that no other text can match, Sexually Transmitted Diseases takes you through all a …
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Adrienne Germain & King K. Holmes: Reproductive Tract Infections
Reproductive tract infections (RTis) have become a silent epidemic that is devastating women’s lives. Each year, thousands of women die needlessly from the consequences of these infections, including …
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Peter Piot: No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses
‘An invaluable portrait of the evolution of international health in recent decades.’ —William Bynum, Wall Street Journal When Peter Piot was in medical school, a professor warned, “There’s no future …
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