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Edited by Paul I. Ahmed, with Nancy Ahmed. 273 pp. New York, Plenum, 1992. $39.50. ISBN 0-306-43851-8.

As Paul Ahmed notes in the preface to Living and Dying with AIDS, HIV illness confronts the fundamental existential issue of the desire to live and die with dignity. One of the almost inevitable shortcomings of most articles or books about HIV infection is that they usually do not address the many ways in which the virus affects the lives of infected persons. This book does, and it emphasizes the social context within which HIV-infected persons live. Most of the chapters stress that we must learn to deal with HIV-related sickness in more compassionate and humanitarian ways.

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