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Record Nr.

UNINA9910586561003321

Titolo

AIDS : safety, sexuality and risk / / edited by Peter Aggleton, Peter Davies, and Graham Hart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Bristol, PA, : Taylor & Francis, 1995

ISBN

9982-19-047-4

1-280-02179-9

0-203-36253-5

9786610021796

1-135-74692-3

0-7484-0292-6

1-135-74691-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

Social aspects of AIDS

Altri autori (Persone)

AggletonPeter

DaviesPeter (Peter M.)

HartGraham <1957->

Disciplina

362.1/969792

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) - Prevention

AIDS (Disease) - Psychological aspects

AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects

Risk perception

Sex (Psychology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Key papers presented during the 1994 conferences of the British Sociological Association, the 2nd International Conference on the BioPsycho-Social Aspects of AIDS, and the Xth International Conference on AIDS.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Reputedly Effective Risk Reduction Strategies and Gay Men; HIV-Related Discrimination in Medical Teaching Texts; Travel, Sexual Behaviour and Gay Men; Sexual Behaviour in Gay Men: Towards a Sociology of Risk; Framing Difference: Sexuality, AIDS and Organization; Towards Effective Inter vention: Evaluating HIV Prevention and Sexual Health Education Interventions; Communities, Governments and AIDS: Making Partnerships Work;



Socially Apart Youth: Priorities for HIV Prevention

Theorizing and Researching 'Risk': Notes on the Social Relations of Risk in Heroin Users' LifestylesSex, Love and Seropositivity: Balancing the Risks; One of Us, One of Them, or One of Those? The Construction of Identity and Sexuality in Relation to HIV/AIDS; Sexuality, Identity and Community; Reflections on the MESMAC Project; Discourses of Power and Empowerment in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS in Africa; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviour, social researchers have begun to focus more clearly on perceptions of sexual safety and risk, and the factors that contribute to these. The issues addressed by the book were examined during three major conferences in 1994: the annual conference of the Briti