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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Bristol, PA, : Taylor & Francis, 1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1/969792
• Soggetto topico: AIDS (Disease) - Prevention; AIDS (Disease) - Psychological aspects; AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects; Risk perception; Sex (Psychology)
• Altri autori: AggletonPeter DaviesPeter (Peter M.) HartGraham <1957->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: AIDS
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910586561003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Social aspects of AIDS.