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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799977003321

Titolo

Working with women and AIDS : medical, social, and counselling issues / / edited by Judy Bury, Val Morrison, and Sheena McLachlan ; foreword by Margaret Jay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Tavistock/Routledge, , 1992

ISBN

1-134-90212-3

0-203-21090-5

9786610324446

1-134-90213-1

1-280-32444-9

Descrizione fisica

xv, 153 p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

BuryJudith

MorrisonVal <1961->

McLachlanSheena <1951->

Disciplina

362.1/969792/0082

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects

Women - Diseases

Women's health services

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter Introduction / Judy Bury -- part Part I Background issues -- chapter 1 Women and the AIDS epidemic -- Judy Bury / Some medical facts and figures -- chapter 2 Social issues -- Joy Barlow / An overview -- chapter 3 Reflections on women and HIV/AIDS in New York City and the United States / Edith Springer -- part Part II Contraception and pregnancy -- chapter 4 Pregnancy, heterosexual transmission and contraception / Judy Bury -- chapter 5 Pregnancy and HIV -- Mary Hepburn / Screening, counselling and services -- part Part III Prostitution -- chapter 6 HIV and the sex industry / Ruth Morgan Thomas -- chapter 7 Developing a service for prostitutes in Glasgow / Netta Maciver -- part Part IV Education and counselling issues -- chapter 8 Education and the prevention of HIV infection / Judy Bury -- chapter 9 Offering safer sex counselling to women from drug-using communities / Jane Wilson -- chapter 10 Women as carers / Jane



Wilson -- part Part V Feelings and needs -- chapter 11 Feelings and needs of women who are HIV positive / Kate Bisset -- chapter 12 Being positive / Kate Thomson -- chapter 13 Poems / Ruth Gilfillan.