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The social context of AIDS / edited by Joan Huber and Beth E. Schneider.

Contributor(s): Huber, Joan, 1925- | Schneider, Beth E, 1945-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: American Sociological Association presidential series.Publisher: Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1992Description: xxiii, 192 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0803943296; 080394330X .Subject(s): AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 306.461
Contents:
Part I: The social context of AIDs -- Sociology and people living with AIDS / Barry D. Adam -- AIDs and class, gender and race relations / Beth E. Schneider -- Part II: The social context of risky behavior -- Unprotected sex: understanding gay men's participation / Martin P. Levine and Karolynn Siegel -- Women don't wear condoms: Aids risk among sexual partners of IV drug users / Laurie Wermuth, Jennifer Ham and Rebecca L. Robbins -- Sexual behavior of male prostitutes / Rhoda Estep, Dan Waldorf and Toby Marotta -- Part III: The social context of treatment and policy -- Organizing drug users against Aids / Samuel R. Friedman, Meryl Sufian, Richard Curtis, Alan Neaigus and Don C. Des Jarlais -- From burying to caring: Family aids support groups / Barbara G. Sosnowitz and David R. Kovacs -- Forced blood testing: Role taking, identity and discrimination / Michael L. Schwalbe and Clifford L. Staples -- Health care and the social construction of aids: the impact of disease definitions / Stephen Crystal and Marguerite Jackson.
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Theoretical models for understanding AIDS in relation to society and the general question of high risk sexual practice, often the means of transmission of the virus, are among the issues discussed in this volume. It also explores the social context of policy and programme development in fighting AIDS - organizing drug users, forced blood-testing and family support groups, for example. Versions of these articles were originally delivered as papers in thematic sessions of the 1989 American Sociological Association annual meeting. Collectively, they represent the cutting edge of sociological work on the AIDS crisis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: The social context of AIDs -- Sociology and people living with AIDS / Barry D. Adam -- AIDs and class, gender and race relations / Beth E. Schneider -- Part II: The social context of risky behavior -- Unprotected sex: understanding gay men's participation / Martin P. Levine and Karolynn Siegel -- Women don't wear condoms: Aids risk among sexual partners of IV drug users / Laurie Wermuth, Jennifer Ham and Rebecca L. Robbins -- Sexual behavior of male prostitutes / Rhoda Estep, Dan Waldorf and Toby Marotta -- Part III: The social context of treatment and policy -- Organizing drug users against Aids / Samuel R. Friedman, Meryl Sufian, Richard Curtis, Alan Neaigus and Don C. Des Jarlais -- From burying to caring: Family aids support groups / Barbara G. Sosnowitz and David R. Kovacs -- Forced blood testing: Role taking, identity and discrimination / Michael L. Schwalbe and Clifford L. Staples -- Health care and the social construction of aids: the impact of disease definitions / Stephen Crystal and Marguerite Jackson.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • The Social Context of AIDS
  • Sociological Contributions to Research and Policy
  • Part 1 The Social Context of Aids
  • Sociology and People Living with AIDS
  • AIDS and Class, Gender, and Race Relations
  • Part 2 The Social Context of Risky Behavior
  • Unprotected Sex
  • Understanding Gay Men's Participation
  • Women Don't Wear Condoms
  • AIDS Risk Among Sexual Partners of IV Drug Users
  • Sexual Behavior of Male Prostitutes
  • Part 3 The Social Context of Treatment and Policy
  • Organizing Drug Users Against AIDS
  • From Burying to Caring
  • Family AIDS Support Groups
  • Forced Blood Testing
  • Role Taking, Identity, and Discrimination
  • Health Care and the Social Construction of AIDS
  • The Impact of Disease Definitions

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Huber and Schneider have collected nine articles by sociologists that assess the social impact of AIDS. Three sections the cultural context of HIV infection, interpersonal considerations for negotiating safer sex, and treatment and policy issues organize the articles. Barry Adam addresses the poltical economy of AIDS and presents a stirring research agenda arguing for a sociology for HIV-infected persons. Martin Levine and Karolynn Siegel investigate why some gay men engage in unprotected sex and document the power and ambiguity of erotic interaction. Estep et al. examine the spread of HIV among male sex workers and offer suggestions for reducing the spread of HIV among these men and their partners. Sosnowitz and Kovacs examine the responses of nonprofessional caregivers in the lives of persons with AIDS. Two chapters examine drug use and AIDS one on the substance users themselves and one on their female sex partners. Two chapters address AIDS discrimination, one on forced blood testing and the other on how the different labels HIV positive, ARC, and AIDS are consequential for treatment. Both chapters document the pernicious effects of homophobia and call for a national health care system to help minimize the impact and extent of the epidemic. Because the face of AIDS is changing so rapidly, this volume is necessarily an incomplete account of sociological work in the area, but it gives an overview of the best research to date. Upper-division undergraduates and above.-B. Miller, California State University, Long Beach