Social Aspects of AIDS
About the Book Series
AIDS is not simply a concern for scientists, doctors, and medical researchers, it has important social implications as well. These include individual, cultural and media responses to the epidemic, stigmatization and discrimination, counselling, care and health promotion. This series of books brings together work from many disciplines including psychology, sociology, cultural and media studies, anthropology, education and history. The titles will be of interest to the general reader, those involved in education and social research, and scientific researchers who want to examine the social aspects of AIDS.
AIDS: Social Representations And Social Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Aggleton, Graham Hart, Peter Davies
August 04, 2016
First Published in 1989. In November 1987, the second U K Conference on Social Aspects of AIDS took place at the Polytechnic of the South Bank in London. This brought together a wide range of researchers with an interest in examining the social dimensions of HIV infection and AIDS. Amongst those ...
AIDS: Individual, Cultural And Policy Dimensions
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Aggleton
February 29, 2016
Contains many of the papers given at the 3rd conference on Social Aspects of AIDS which took place at South Bank Polytechnic in February 1989. The conference's themes emphasized the individual, cultural and policy dimensions of HIV disease....
Partnership and Pragmatism: The German Response to AIDS Prevention and Care
1st Edition
Edited
By Rolf Rosenbrock, Michael Wright
December 07, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most important themes in German HIV/AIDS prevention and care from the beginning of the epidemic to the present. Multidisciplinary in approach, it highlights the unique contributions of Germany to AIDS work, making available for the first time ...
AIDS: Responses, Interventions and Care
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Aggleton, Peter Davies, Graham Hart
September 02, 2003
This book emphasises popular and professional responses to the epidemic, local and national interventions and issues of care....
Sex, Work and Professionalism: Working in HIV/AIDS
1st Edition
By Katie Deverell
September 21, 2001
Sex, Work and Professionalism examines what happens when professional concern is defined in terms of sex. Based on original fieldwork with outreach workers in HIV prevention it addresses issues of professionalism, emotion work and boundaries, integrating empirical insights with sociological theory....
AIDS Sexuality and Gender in Africa: Collective Strategies and Struggles in Tanzania and Zambia
1st Edition
Edited
By Carolyn Baylies, Janet Bujra
February 05, 2001
While there is a growing list of publications devoted to the AIDS epidemic, Africa, with two-thirds of the world's cases, still receives scant attention. This book may change the way we think about AIDS and how it is being addressed in Africa and the rest of the world.The book draws on first-hand ...
Families and Communities Responding to AIDS
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Aggleton, Peter Davies, Graham Hart
June 15, 2000
All over the world, families and communities are key providers of care and support. This is particularly true in relation to serious illnesses such as HIV and AIDS. Yet families and communities can also stigmatize their members, leaving people to die in the most appalling conditions. This book ...
AIDS in Europe: New Challenges for the Social Sciences
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Aggleton, Jean Paul Moatti, Annick Prieur, Theo Sandfort, Yves Souteyrand
April 20, 2000
Major changes in the nature and dynamics of the AIDS epidemic over the last few years are reflected in changing epidemiological trends as well as in the progress made in biomedical research and treatment. AIDS in Europe brings together papers from leading social science researchers to look at the ...
Dying to Care: Work, Stress and Burnout in HIV/AIDS Professionals
1st Edition
By David Miller
December 01, 1999
Based on major multi-centre research in the UK, Dying to Care identifies why work stress is a problem in health care generally, and in HIV health care in particular. The similarities and differences between work stress experienced in general health care settings and in HIV/AIDS are explored in a ...
Mental Health and HIV Infection
1st Edition
Edited
By Jose Catalan
July 01, 1999
Mental Health and HIV Infection provides an up-to-date overview of the mental health consequences and of the kind of psychological, psychopharmaological and community forms of intervention available to deal with the adverse psychological effects of HIV infection. Divided into three parts, the book ...
Men Who Sell Sex: International Perspectives on Male Prostitution and HIV/AIDS
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Aggleton
September 01, 1998
Men Who Sell Sex is the first comprehensive international account of male prostitution and AIDS. While much is known about female prostitution and sex work, relatively little is known about men who sell sex - either to women or other men. This book brings together an authoritative collection of ...
Drug Injecting and HIV Infection
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Ball, Don C. Des Jarlais, Gerry V. Stimson
August 01, 1998
Drug Injecting and HIV Infection is a comparative international study of drug injecting behaviour and HIV infection based on the World Health Organization's study of 13 cities as disparate as Athens, Bangkok, Glasgow and Rio de Janeiro. Using a standardized methodology for the collection of data, ...