Conversations between AIDS counsellors and their clients bring delicate and potentially threatening issues into play. In this study Anssi Peräkylä applies the principles of conversation analysis to his exploration of AIDS counselling, using data from video-recorded counselling s…
In 1978, while recovering from cancer, Susan Sontag wrote Illness as metaphor, the celebrated essay on the invented and often punitive uses of illness in our culture. It was not surprising that a decade later, after the advent of AIDS, Sontag felt compelled to write a sequel tha…
From the Publisher: Once thought to be a disease of homosexuals and drug abusers, AIDS has now impacted people across cultures, genders, and sexual orientations. Despite activism, new research, and treatments, many people are still dying from this disease. HIV/AIDS offers a comp…
Once thought to be a disease of homosexuals and drug abusers, AIDS has now impacted people across cultures, genders, and sexual orientations. Despite activism, new research, and treatments, many people are still dying from this disease. HIV/AIDS offers a comprehensive, one-volum…
AIDS: Responses, Interventions and Care
by Davies, Peter, Aggleton, Peter, Hart, Graham
First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This book emphasizes popular and professional responses to the epidemic, local and national interventions and issues of care.
The management of AIDS patients
by Miller, David, Weber, Jonathan, Green, John, (Notari)
The exponential increase in the number of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) cases has exposed the difficulty in getting information that exists among the public and health professionals about the correct procedures for the management of patients with AIDS and AIDS-relat…
