AIDS: Individual, Cultural And Policy Dimensions

Contains many of the papers given at the 3rd conference on Social Aspects of AIDS which took place at South Bank Polytechnic in February 1989. The conference's themes emphasized the individual, cultural and policy dimensions of HIV disease.

Peter Aggleton, Peter Davies, Graham Hart

Chapter 1 What Science Knows: Formations of Aids Knowledges, Cindy Patton; Chapter 2 Safer Sex as Community Practice, Simon Watney; Chapter 3 Aids Invulnerability: Relationships, Sexual Behaviour and Attitudes among 16-19-Year-Olds, Dominic Abrams, Charles Abraham, Russell Spears, Deborah Marks; Chapter 4 Blame and Young People's Moral Judgments about AIDS, Stephen Clift, David Stears, Sandra Legg, Amina Memon, Lorna Ryan; Chapter 5 Young People in Independent Schools, Sexual Behaviour and AIDS, Candace Currie; Chapter 6 'Adolescents', Young People and AIDS Research, Ian Warwick, Peter Aggleton; Chapter 7 On Male Homosexual Prostitution and HIV, Peter Davies, Paul Simpson; Chapter 8 Variation in Sexual Behaviour in Gay Men, Ray Fitzpatrick, John McLean, Mary Boulton, Graham Hart, Jill Dawson; Chapter 9 Needle Exchange in Historical Context: Responses to the 'Drugs Problem', Hart Graham; Chapter 10 Drug Injectors' Risks for HIV, Neil McKeganey, Marina Barnard; Chapter 11 Some Observations on the Sexual Behaviour of Injecting Drug Users: Implications for the Spread of HIV Infection, Hilary Klee; Chapter 12 AIDS Education and Women: Sexual and Reproductive Issues, Diane Richardson; Chapter 13 AIDS Prevention Strategies in Europe: A Comparison and Critical Analysis, Hans Moerkerk, Peter Aggleton; Chapter 14 The Social Organization of HIV Counselling, David Silverman; Chapter 15 Local Authorities and HIV-Related Illness, Terry Cotton, Vijay Kumari; Chapter 16 Responses to AIDS: 1986-1987, Zoe Schramm-Evans; Chapter 17 No One Knew Anything: Some Issues in British AIDS Policy, Philip Strong, Virginia Berridge;