AIDS [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Aggleton Peter
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1/969792
• Soggetto topico: AIDS (Disease); AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects; HIV Infections; Sociology; Slow Virus Diseases; Probability; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Risk; Social Environment; Virus Diseases; Statistics as Topic; Lentivirus Infections; Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral; Mathematical Concepts; Social Sciences; Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes; Phenomena and Processes; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena; Diseases; Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms; Retroviridae Infections; Immune System Diseases; Epidemiologic Methods; Quality of Health Care; Investigative Techniques; Public Health; RNA Virus Infections; Environment and Public Health; Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Health Care; Communicable Diseases; Health & Biological Sciences
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: DaviesPeter (Peter M.) HartGraham <1957->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: AIDS
• ISBN: 9982-19-047-4; 0-203-36253-5; 1-135-74692-3; 1-280-02179-9; 9786610021796
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996207278803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Social Aspects of AIDS