Rosaline S.Barbour is Senior Lecturer in Health Services Research at the University of Hull., Guro Huby is a Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh.

• Chapter 1 Introduction AIDS: from the specialised to the mainstream, Rosaline S. Barbour, Guro Huby; Part 1 Power; Chapter 2 Silence and strategy Researching AIDS/HIV narratives in the flow of power, Brian Heaphy; Chapter 3 Power, culture and the ‘hard to reach’ The marginalisation of minority ethnic populations from HIV prevention and harm minimisation, Dima Abdulrahim; Chapter 4 Policing boundaries Linking the theory and experience of psychotherapy in HIV/AIDS research, Philip Gatter; Part 2 Boundaries and identities; Chapter 5 It's a family affair On public and private accounts of HIV/AIDS, Hugh Masters; Chapter 6 Researchers experience emotions too, Jill Bourne; Chapter 7 Fact-finder, fag hag, fellow and funambulist Research as a balancing act, Katie Deverell; Part 3 Narrative exchange; Chapter 8 The story as gift Researching AIDS in the welfare marketplace, Neil Small; Chapter 9 Of tales, myth, metaphor and metonym, Clive Foster; Chapter 10 On networks and narratives Research and the construction of chaotic drug user lifestyles, Guro Huby; Part 4 Representation and agency; Chapter 11 Engagement, representation and presentation in research practice, Rosaline S. Barbour; Chapter 12 Carrying out HIV-related research in an area of low prevalence Issues for researcher and researched, Cathy Stark; Chapter 13 Evaluation within a policy-making and contracting culture Reflections on practice, Edwin van Teijlingen, Guro Huby; Part 5 A tribute to Phil Strong and an overview; Chapter 14a Introduction to Chapter 14, Anne Murcott; Chapter 14 The pestilential apocalypse Modern, postmodern and early modern observations, Philip Strong; Chapter 15 Conclusion From meddling to mastery?, Rosaline S. Barbour, Guro Huby;

'Each of the parts in this collection provides both accessible but also penetrating insights into the often-unrecorded consequences for both researcher and researched of undertaking research in complex and unfolding arenas of experience and knowledge. It is a good and valuable book that provides another dimension to the history of the constructors of AIDS knowledges, and a useful example of the largely hidden face of research practice.' - Medical Sociology News: A Newsletter of the British Sociological Association December 1998'Honest insights into the research process that books such as this provide should never be ignored.' - Kevin Williams, Health, Risk and Society