Culture and AIDS

Author:   Douglas A. Feldman
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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9780275931896


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   19 October 1990
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Douglas A. Feldman
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.496kg
ISBN:  

9780275931896


ISBN 10:   0275931897
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   19 October 1990
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Written mostly by anthropologists, these essays examine differenct cultural areas and AIDS: Central Africa (Rwanda), New York City, Houston, and London. In addition, articles address topics such as stigmatization of AIDS victims by the press; language and AIDS; class variations in the delivery of social services as experienced by gay and bisexual men in New York City; and homophobia and AIDS. The volume is a valuable addition to the socio-anthropological literature on AIDS and should be useful to professionals and for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses dealing with sociocultural aspects of AIDS. -Choice ?Written mostly by anthropologists, these essays examine differenct cultural areas and AIDS: Central Africa (Rwanda), New York City, Houston, and London. In addition, articles address topics such as stigmatization of AIDS victims by the press; language and AIDS; class variations in the delivery of social services as experienced by gay and bisexual men in New York City; and homophobia and AIDS. The volume is a valuable addition to the socio-anthropological literature on AIDS and should be useful to professionals and for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses dealing with sociocultural aspects of AIDS.?-Choice


"?Written mostly by anthropologists, these essays examine differenct cultural areas and AIDS: Central Africa (Rwanda), New York City, Houston, and London. In addition, articles address topics such as stigmatization of AIDS victims by the press; language and AIDS; class variations in the delivery of social services as experienced by gay and bisexual men in New York City; and homophobia and AIDS. The volume is a valuable addition to the socio-anthropological literature on AIDS and should be useful to professionals and for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses dealing with sociocultural aspects of AIDS.?-Choice ""Written mostly by anthropologists, these essays examine differenct cultural areas and AIDS: Central Africa (Rwanda), New York City, Houston, and London. In addition, articles address topics such as stigmatization of AIDS victims by the press; language and AIDS; class variations in the delivery of social services as experienced by gay and bisexual men in New York City; and homophobia and AIDS. The volume is a valuable addition to the socio-anthropological literature on AIDS and should be useful to professionals and for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses dealing with sociocultural aspects of AIDS.""-Choice"


?Written mostly by anthropologists, these essays examine differenct cultural areas and AIDS: Central Africa (Rwanda), New York City, Houston, and London. In addition, articles address topics such as stigmatization of AIDS victims by the press; language and AIDS; class variations in the delivery of social services as experienced by gay and bisexual men in New York City; and homophobia and AIDS. The volume is a valuable addition to the socio-anthropological literature on AIDS and should be useful to professionals and for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses dealing with sociocultural aspects of AIDS.?-Choice


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DOUGLAS FELDMAN is a medical anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the School of Medicine, University of Miami. He is co-editor of The Social Dimensions of AIDS (Praeger, 1986).

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