Social Dimensions of AIDS

nson /f Thomas /i M. /r ed.

• Part 1 Aids social research strategies: methodological issues in AIDS-related research, K.Siegel and L.Bauman; applied methodology - a primer of pitfalls and opportunities in AIDS research, J.Zich and L.Temoshok. Part 2 Social epidemiology: behaviour, infection and immune response - an epidemiological approach, R.Flam and Z.Stein; the case for a origin of the Aids epidemic, A.Moore and R.LeBaron; the social origins of AIDS - social change, sexual behaviour and disease trends, W.Darrow et al. Part 3 Lifestyles and behavioural change: AIDS and needle sharing within the IV drug-use subculture D. Des Jarlais et al; gay lifestyle change and AIDS - preventive health care, J.Kotarba and N.Lang; AIDS health promotion and clinically applied anthropology, D. Feldman. Part 4 AIDS and the media: illness and deviance - the response of the press to AIDS, E.Albert; the portrayal of AIDS in the media - an analysis of articles in the "New York Times", A.Baker. Part 5 Health beliefs and behaviour: AIDS - a psychosocial perspective, V.Casper; explanatory models for AIDS, D.Bolognone and T.Johnson; fear of AIDS and its effects on the nation's blood supply, P.Callero et al. Part 6 Impact of AIDS on health-care delivery: hospice staff response to fear of AIDS, S.Geis and R.Fuller; ideology and politics in the control of contagion - the social organization of AIDS care, R.Lessor and K.Jurich.