AIDS is not simply a concern for scientists, doctors and medical researchers, it has important social dimensions too. These include cultural, individual and media responses to HIV/AIDS, stigmatization and discrimination, perceptions of risk, and issues to do with counselling, care and health promotion. This new series of books brings together work from many disciplines including psychology, sociology, cultural and media studies, anthropology, education and history. Many of the titles offer insight into contemporary research priorities and identify some of the opportunities open to those involved in care and health promotion. The series will be of interest to the general reader, those involved in education and social research, as well as scientific and medical researchers who want to examine the social aspects of AIDS.

Sustaining Safe Sex: Gay Communities Respond to AIDS (Social Aspects of AIDS Series)

Kippax, Susan

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Falmer Press

Sustaining Safe Sex: Gay Communities Respond to AIDS (Social Aspects of AIDS)

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.

Politics & Social Sciences

Crawford, June

Connell, R.W.

Dowsett, G.W.

Sociology

Routledge

<p>This book concerns HIV prevention.  In it the authors argue that until the world focuses its attention on the social issues carried and revealed by AIDS, it is unlikely that HIV transmission will be eradicated or even significantly reduced. The book argues that we are currently witnessing the remedicalisation or the continuing biomedicalisation of HIV prevention, which began in earnest after the development of successful HIV treatment, and that this biomedical trajectory continues with the increasing push to use HIV treatments as prevention, undermining what has been in many countries a successful prevention response. This wide-ranging study argues that HIV prevention involves enabling people and communities to discuss sex, sexuality and drug use and, informed by these discussion, devising locally effective strategies for promoting safe sexual and drug injection practices.</p>

Socialising the Biomedical Turn in HIV Prevention (Key Issues in Modern Sociology)

Stephenson, Niamh

Anthem Press

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