In an analysis of gender and AIDS, the author assesses safer sex health promotion and health education discourse and considers their unintended consequences for the cultural construction of gender and sexuality. Taking a queer/feminist constructionist position, she links issues of power, gender and sexuality and nationalism in an attempt to offer ......
Women now account for the majority of all new HIV/AIDS cases diagnosed in the United States. Yet, the resources allotted to women for research, health services, education, and outreach remain woefully inadequate. The Gender Politics of HIV/AIDS in Women fills crucial gaps in understanding the specific effects of HIV and AIDS on and in women's ......
In this book, the author offers an analytical account of how counselling, as a process, is dynamically constructed through the interaction of counsellor and client. Drawing on research on counselling of clients undergoing an HIV test, the author explores the ways in which conversations between counsellors and patients reflect, embody and subtly alter assumptions about the purpose, method and practice of counselling. This text should be of interest to researchers and students of counselling, psychotherapy and associated helping professions as a critical appreciation of the modes of engagement between counsellor and client. Practitioners - particularly those within the domain of HIV and other health counselling - should be stimulated to reflect on and respond to Silverman's analysis in their own practice. This book should also be useful reading for researchers and students in the traditions of sociological work on interactionism, conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, applying these approaches in a sophisticated manner to the interactional and conversational analysis strategies adopted in a health promotion environment.
In almost 20 years of tackling the AIDS epidemic, one theme has consistently emerged: the solution to stopping the spread of the AIDS virus, HIV, rests with individual behaviour. The critical question is: how can people be influenced to change risk behaviours related to sexual activity and drug use? This volume brings together some of the most respected researchers in the area of reducing the transmission of HIV. Their work represents the state-of-the-art research on safer sex and drug use. The issues discussed include: adolescents at risk from AIDS; denial, motivation and behaviour; and special populations.
This book brings together some of the most r espected researchers in the area of reducing the transmissio n of HIV to help answer the critical question, how can peopl e be influenced to change risk behaviours related to sexual activity and drug use? '
An exhaustive synthesis of clinical material and empirical date, Counseling Clients with HIV Disease is essential reading for mental health professionals, including counselors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychiatric nurses.
A knowledge of the social context in which HIV transmission occurs is useful when trying to understand the AIDS epidemic. This broad-ranging book offers an overview of our current understanding of the social conditions and contexts of the spread of HIV infection. The author examines the social epidemiology of HIV transmission in its different manifestations in the developing world and in the west, looking at heterosexual and homosexual transmission, sex tourism and prostitution, injecting drug users, haemophiliacs and transfusion recipients. He goes on to look at reports of sociological studies of risk behaviour among men who have sex with men, among heterosexual and bisexual men and women, and among those who share syringes. Drawing on his own research, Michael Bloor presents a critical examination of the different theoretical models of risk behaviour and considers their implications for disease prevention. "The Sociology of HIV Transmission" should be useful reading for academics, researchers and students in medical sociology and in health, sexuality and youth studies, as well as for health and social work practitioners working in areas related to AIDS, health promotion and education, and sex education.
This comprehensive handbook provides the latest information on HIV care, with an emphasis on the provider-patient partnership and the need to view HIV patients holistically. It will become an essential guide for any health care professional working with patients who are HIV positive.
This comprehensive handbook provides the latest information on HIV care, with an emphasis on the provider-patient partnership and the need to view HIV patients holistically. It will become an essential guide for any health care professional working with patients who are HIV positive.
