AIDS, Drugs and Prevention

Herausgeber: Hartnoll, Richard; Rhodes, Tim

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

AIDS, Drugs and Prevention offers practical and theoretical insights into community-based health work in the time of AIDS. It provides invaluable reading for students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners in health promotion, health policy, social work and medical sociology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415102049
• ISBN-10: 0415102049
• Artikelnr.: 21984803

Autorenporträt

Tim Rhodes is a medical sociologist at the Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, University of London. Richard Hartnoll is an epidemiologist at the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Lisbon, Portugal.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Individual and community action in HIV prevention: an introduction 2
Health promotion and the facilitation of individual change: the case of
syringe distribution and exchange 3 Americans and syringe exchange: roots
of resistance 4 AIDS prevention and drug policy: dilemmas in the local
environment 5 '"E" types and dance divas': gender research and community
prevention 6 Gay community oriented approaches to safer sex 7 Prostitution
and peer education: beyond HIV 8 Save sex/save lives: evolving modes of
activism 9 The process of drug injection: applying ethnography to the study
of HIV risk among IDUs 10 Promoting risk management among drug injectors 11
Heroin, risk and sexual safety: some problems for interventions encouraging
community change 12 Ethnographic contributions to AIDS intervention
strategies 13 Peer-driven outreach to combat HIV among IDUs: a basic design
and preliminary results 14 Collective organisation of injecting: drug users
and the struggle against AIDS