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: Activism and Alliances
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Aggleton, Peter Davis, Graham Hart
March 01, 1997
From the start of the AIDS epidemic there have been calls for greater solidarity between affected groups and communities, and public health services. This can be seen both in the move towards healthy alliances in health service work, and in the demands of AIDS activists worldwide. This text brings ...
Sexual Interactions and HIV Risk: New Conceptual Perspectives in European Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Mitchell Cohen, Gustavo Guizzardi, Dominique Hausser, Luc Van Campenhoudt
February 01, 1997
How sexual risk is negotiated betwen partners is an area of considerable theoretical interest, with the dominant models of analysis focusing on individual decisions to engage in sexual behaviour and relying on "rational" decision-making. This work, based on the findings from work coordinated by the...
AIDS as a Gender Issue: Psychosocial Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Lydia Bennett, Catherine Hankins, Lorraine Sherr
January 01, 1997
This international collection examines a wide range of psycho-social aspects of AIDS and HIV infection, including prevention, education, healthcare and policy in terms of gender challenges....
Crossing Borders: Migration, Ethnicity and AIDS
1st Edition
Edited
By Mary Haour-Knipe, the late Richard Rector
November 01, 1996
Academics and activists have come together in this edited volume to tackle the complex issues surrounding migration and AIDS. The book sets the agenda for the development of HIV/AIDS prevention and care programme in migrant and minority ethnic communities. Issues covered include: migration patterns...
Bisexualities and AIDS: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Aggleton
July 01, 1996
Since early-on in the epidemic, there has been much interest in the role that bisexual behaviour among men may play in HIV transmission. This text reviews from an international perspective what has been learned about male bisexuality in countries as diverse as Peru and Britain. Its authors examine ...
Aids: Safety, Sexuality and Risk
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Aggleton, Peter Davies, Graham Hart
November 01, 1995
Some 12 years into the epidemic, with an effective preventive vaccine or therapy against HIV disease still to be found, this book reflects on the contributions of social and behavioural research to the development of interventions for prevention. After over a decade's work documenting HIV and ...
Organizing Aids: Workplace and Organizational Responses to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
1st Edition
By Derek Adam-Smith, David Goss
October 01, 1995
It is estimated that 90% of those who are HIV positive are in employment. However, the significant body of literature into HIV/AIDS to date has primarily focused on the medical aspects of the disease and its implications for health/social policy. There has been little analysis of the employment ...
Sexual Behaviour and AIDS in the Developing World
1st Edition
Edited
By John Cleland, Benoit Ferry
October 01, 1995
Based on the findings of a research project conducted by the World Health Organisation, this book contains unpublished material on AIDS-related knowledge and sexual behaviour in countries in Africa, Asia and South America, including: Cote d'Ivoire; Kenya; Lesotho; Mauritius; Tanzania; Sri Lanka; ...
AIDS: Foundations For The Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Aggleton, Peter Davies, Graham Hart
July 01, 1994
HIV and AIDS have posed new challenges to societies, communities and individuals. In many parts of the world, existing health and social services have been hard pressed to cope with the dermands of the epidemic. In hospitals and in the community, new approaches to health education, support and care...
Last Served?: Gendering the HIV Pandemic
1st Edition
By Cindy Patton
July 01, 1994
Following a decade in which the focus on HIV and AIDS has been on specific social groups, a shift in professional perceptions has resulted in a change in the images of women and HIV/AIDS. "Last Served?" recognizes and analyzes the trend toward more openly acknowledging and planning for women in the...
Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires: AIDS in the News Media
1st Edition
By Deborah Lupton
March 01, 1994
Since 1981, AIDS has had an enormous impact upon the popular imagination. Few other diseases this century have been greeted with quite the same fear, loathing, and prejudice against those who develop it. The mass media, and in particular, the news media, have played a vital part in "making sense" ...
Sustaining Safe Sex: Gay Communities Respond to AIDS
1st Edition
By R.W. Connell, June Crawford, G.W. Dowsett, Susan Kippax
September 01, 1993
This book focuses on the cultural processes at work within the Australian gay communitites, which have made significant efforts at preventing the spread of the HIV virus. Sustaining Safe Sex has clear relevance to work throughout the world....