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Sexual Interactions and HIV Risk
This work examines the theories and perspectives involved in the study of sexual risk behaviour and HIV. It provides a framework for analysis based on sexual interactions and their social context.
Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires
Since 1981, AIDS has had an enormous impact upon the popular imagination. Few other diseases this century have been greeted with quite the same fear, loathing, and prejudice against those who develop it. The mass media, and in particular, the news media, have played a vital part in "making sense" of AIDS. This volume takes an interdisciplinary perspective, combining cultural studies, history of medicine, and contemporary social theory to examine AIDS reporting. There have been three major themes dominating coverage: the "gay-plague" dominant in the early 1980s, panic-stricken visions of the end of the world as AIDS was said to pose a threat to everyone, in the late 1980s; and a growing routi...
Challenge and Innovation
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Sustaining Safe Sex
Presents new data on the sexual and social responses to the HIV epidemic, focusing on the cultural processes at work within the Australian gay community. In a country hit early by the HIV epidemic, these communities have made significant efforts at preventing the spread of the virus. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Crossing Borders
Academics and activists have come together in this edited volume to tackle the complex issues surrounding migration and AIDS. The book sets the agenda for the development of HIV/AIDS prevention and care programme in migrant and minority ethnic communities. Issues covered include: migration patterns; policies for migrant health; legal and human rights issues as they affect mobile populations; racism and stigma; and HIV/AIDS prevention, care and programme evaluation as they pertain to migrant communities. The editors end with an overview of some of the key issues which remain to be addressed. The book identifies foundations on which bridges can be built, attempting to turn away from thinking of migration in terms of 'them ' and 'us', of public health in terms of protection, and from conceptualizing AIDS in terms of the infected and the non-infected. It is hoped that readers will take up the challenge, turn towards groups too often ignored, and ultimately work towards social justice and equity.
Performing Queer: Shaping sexualities, 1994-2004
This volume explores the social constructions of sexuality in South Africa as articulated in the tensions between margin and mainstream during the transition to democracy. The nuances between how people experience their own sexuality, how that sexuality differs over time, and how they speak about it are discussed in the context of the homosexual communities of South Africa. Using the hierarchy of heteronormativity, this work argues that centralized constructions of sexuality are generally taken for granted, and tend to gain invisibility through their pervasiveness, while marginalized social positions are often visibly pathologized.
Inventing AIDS
This book assesses the AIDS "service industry" that has emerged since the mid-1980's. Informed by deconstruction and current critical theory, Patton analyzes the discourses of AIDS and how they shape, control and delay public policy that determines health strategies dealing with the epidemic. The book includes a committed and passionate critique of the use of "scientific knowledge" in the face of what is a predominant cultural metaphor of the late 20th century.
Health
The concise guide to health - what it is, how we measure it and what it means - now updated for the 21st century. The new edition contains: an extended discussion of health inequalities in the light of the 1998 Acheson report; new material throughout on alternative and complimentary approaches to health; an extended section on the gendering of health care; and a new chapter on late modern explanations of health and illness including an analysis of the health panics around AIDs, BSE and meningitis. This accessible introduction to the key concepts and issues in the study of health aims to be a valuable starting place both for academic students of health and society and for those beginning their training in the professional health services.
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