Reproductive Technology - Health Studies Books

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1. Ultra-Low Fertility in Pacific Asia: Trends, causes and policy issues

   Edited by Paulin Straughan, Angelique Chan, Gavin Jones

   Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong SAR are among the very lowest-fertility countries in the whole world, and even China has reached fertility levels lower than those in many European countries. If these levels continue over long periods East Asia will soon face accelerating...

   2008 | 978-0-415-46884-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Counseling Pregnancy, Politics, and Biomedicine: Empowering Discernment

   By Patricia Elyse Terrell

   Examine the impact and importance reproduction and genetics have on religious valuesCounseling Pregnancy, Politics, and Biomedicine: Empowering Discernment explains the mystery of the God-human relationship so ministers, priests, and pastors can follow the ethics and mechanics of counseling human...

   2007 | 978-0-7890-3045-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   A Theology of Gay and Lesbian Inclusion: Love Letters to the Church

   Encourage the Church to address the gift of human sexuality—how to view it, how to deal with it, and how it relates to spiritualityA Theology of Gay and Lesbian Inclusion: Love Letters to the Church challenges traditional church teachings that brand homosexuality as immoral, using pertinent...

   2006 | 978-0-7890-2999-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. The Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health: A Practitioner's Guide to Service

   By Michael Shankle

   Get the comprehensive resource for LGBT public health issues!Public health services for sexual minorities have suffered from practitioners’ lack of knowledge about sexual or gender orientation, specific health concerns, and inherent system homophobia and heterosexism. The Handbook of Lesbian,...

   2006 | 978-1-56023-496-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Transgender and HIV: Risks, Prevention, and Care

   By Edmond J Coleman, Sheila Kirk, Walter O Bockting

   Deliver effective services to this growing population! This volume presents the first collection of reports on the impact of HIV/AIDS on the transgender community worldwide. It includes a thorough description of the unique HIV risks of transgender people and exposes their largely neglected health...

   2001 | 978-0-7890-1268-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. The AIDS Movie: Representing a Pandemic in Film and Television

   By Kylo-Patrick R Hart

   Are people with HIV/AIDS treated fairly in films?Here is a compelling book that provides you with a thorough examination of how HIV/AIDS is characterized and portrayed in film and how this portrayal affects American culture. The AIDS Movie: Representing a Pandemic in Film and Television...

   2000 | 978-0-7890-1108-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Public Sex in a Latin Society

   Explore the risks and rewards of seeking and having sex in public places!Public Sex in a Latin Society is one of the first books to explore the lives of people who look for sex in public places and the dangers involved--from murder to HIV infection. The book examines why many gay men have been...

   1999 | 978-1-56023-986-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. The HIV-Negative Gay Man: Developing Strategies for Survival and Emotional Well-Being

   By Steven Ball

   In The HIV-Negative Gay Man: Developing Strategies for Survival and Emotional Well-Being, you’ll get instant access to some of the most recent information on the market today about remaining HIV-negative. You’ll come in contact with a wealth of information concerning the psychosocial and...

   1998 | 978-1-56023-114-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. AIDS, Communication, and Empowerment: Gay Male Identity and the Politics of Public Health Messages

   By Roger Myrick

   AIDS, Communication, and Empowerment examines the cultural construction of gay men in light of discourse used in the media’s messages about HIV/AIDS--messages often represented as educational, scientific, and informational but which are, in fact, politically charged. The book offers a compelling...

   1997 | 978-1-56023-907-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Reviving the Tribe: Regenerating Gay Men's Sexuality and Culture in the Ongoing Epidemic

    Reviving the Tribe creates a rich and brutally honest portrait of contemporary gay men’s lives amidst the seemingly endless AIDS epidemic and offers both autobiographical self-examination and a relentless critique of current sexual politics within the gay community. Fearlessly confronting the...

    1995 | 978-1-56023-876-8 | Paperback (Routledge)