AIDS: Responses, Interventions and Care

Preface 1 AIDS: The Second Decade: Risk, Research and Modernity 2 Changing to Safer Sex: Personality, Logic and Habit 3 What Is a Sexual Encounter? 4 Gay Men’s Views and Experiences of the HIV Test 5 Bisexual Men: Women, Safer Sex and HIV Transmission 6 Prostitutes’ Perceptions of Risk and Factors Related to Risk-taking 7 London’s Homosexual Male Prostitutes: Power, Peer Groups and HIV 8 Towards a General Model of Sexual Negotiation 9 Between Embarrassment and Trust: Young Women and the Diversity of Condom Use 10 Condoms, Coercion and Control: Heterosexuality and the Limits to HIV/AIDS Education 11 Perceptions of AIDS Vulnerability: The Role of Attributions and Social Context 12 Moral Perspectives and Safer Sex Practice: Two Themes in Teaching about HIV and AIDS in Secondary Schools 13 Answering Children’s Questions about HIV/AIDS in the Primary School: Are Teachers Prepared? 14 Prison, HIV Infection and Drug Use 15 The Future of Syringe Exchange in the Public Health Prevention of HIV Infection 16 Reaching the Hard to Reach: Models of HIV Outreach Health Education 17 Misfortune, Medicine and AIDS Counselling 18 Care: What’s in It for Her?

Biography

Peter Aggleton is Senior Lecturer in Policy and Management in Education at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London. He is a director of a number of major projects concerned with HIV/AIDS health promotion. His recent publications include Nursing Models and the Nursing Process (with Helen Chalmers, Macmillan, 1986), Deviance (Tavistock, 1987), Social Aspects of AIDS (ed. with Hilary Homans, Falmer, 1988), AIDS: Social Representations and Social Practices (ed. with Graham Hart and Peter Davies, Falmer, 1989), AIDS: Individual, Cultural and Policy Dimensions (ed. with Graham Hart and Peter Davies, Falmer, 1990) and Health (Routledge, 1990). Peter Davies is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at South Bank Polytechnic. He is the Co-director of Project SIGMA (Sociosexual Investigations into Gay Men and AIDS) and author of Key Texts in Multidimensional Scaling (Heinemann, 1982), Images of Social Stratification (Sage, 1985), and the editor (with Peter Aggleton and Graham Hart) of AIDS: Social Representations, Social Practices (Falmer, 1989), and AIDS: Individual, Cultural and Policy Dimensions (Falmer, 1990). Graham Hart is Lecturer in Medical Sociology at University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London. His research interests include sexual and injecting risk behaviours for HIV infection, and he has recently published papers on these subjects in the British Medical Journal, AIDS and AIDS Care. He is editor (with Peter Aggleton and Peter Davies) of AIDS: Social Representations, Social Practices (Falmer, 1989), and AIDS: Individual, Cultural and Policy Dimensions (Falmer, 1990).