Partnership and pragmatism : Germany's response to AIDS prevention and care /

Partnership and pragmatism : Germany's response to AIDS prevention and care /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Description:1 online resource (xviii, 254 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Social aspects of AIDS
Social aspects of AIDS.
Subject:
AIDS (Disease) -- Germany.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control.
HIV Infections -- prevention & control.
Health Policy.
AIDS (Disease)
Germany.
Germany.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11125877
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Other authors / contributors:Rosenbrock, Rolf, 1945-
Wright, Michael T.
ISBN:0585462216
9780585462219
9780203470480
0203470486
9780415241052
0415241057
9780415241069
0415241065
9781134549757
113454975X
9781134549702
1134549709
9781134549740
1134549741
9781138881426
1138881422
9786610543687
6610543682
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most important themes in German HIV/AIDS prevention and care from the beginning of the epidemic to the present. Multidisciplinary in approach, it highlights the unique contributions of Germany to AIDS work, making available for the first time knowledge which can be applied to other countries as well as to other fields of public health practice. Topics discussed include: *structural prevention, a concept which unites political and behavioural change *the synchronistic relationship between AIDS policy and gay politics *the d.
Other form:Print version: Partnership and pragmatism. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000 0415241057
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgement
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Pragmatism and Partnership
  • 2. Aids in a German Context
  • References
  • Part II. History, Policy and Epidemiology
  • 3. The Epidemiology of Hiv and Aids in Germany
  • 4. From Hysteria to Banality
  • 5. The Role of the German Federal Government in Fighting the Epidemic
  • 6. Aidsprevention Campaigns for the General Public
  • References
  • 7. Structural Prevention
  • 8. The German Aids Self-Help Movement
  • Part III. Risk Perception and Decision Making in Safer Sex
  • 9. Reactions of the General Population to Aids
  • 10. Aids Prevention as a Social Systems Intervention
  • Notes
  • 11. The 'risk Factor Love'
  • References
  • Part IV. Responding to Specific Target Groups
  • 12. The Response of Gay German Men to Hiv
  • References
  • 13. Western-Style Prevention for Eastern Gay Men?
  • References
  • 14. The Accepting Approach to Working with Drug Users in Germany
  • 15. The Meaning of Hiv Prevention in the Context of Heterosexual Relationships
  • 16. The Umbrella Network
  • 17. Innovation Versus Normalisation
  • 18. Defining the Aids Survivor Syndrome and Testing for Symptoms in an Exploratory Study of Gay German Men
  • 19. Aids Policy, Health Policy and Gay Politics
  • Part V. The Future of Aids Policy and Practice
  • 20. The Normalisation of Aids in Germany
  • References
  • Index

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