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  • Socialising the Biomedical Turn in HIV Prevention

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    This book concerns HIV prevention. In it the authors argue that until the world focuses its attention on the social issues carried and revealed by AIDS, it is unlikely that HIV transmission will be eradicated or even significantly reduced. The book argues that we are currently witnessing the remedicalisation or the continuing biomedicalisation of HIV prevention, which began in earnest after the ... Read more

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  • Socialising the Biomedical Turn in HIV Prevention

    Series series Anthem Health and Society Series
    This book concerns HIV prevention. The authors argue that until the world focuses its attention on the social issues carried and revealed by AIDS, it is unlikely that HIV transmission will be eradicated or even significantly reduced. Currently we are witnessing the remedicalisation or the continuing biomedicalisation of HIV prevention, which began in earnest in 1996/7 after the development of ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Socialising the Biomedical Turn in HIV Prevention

    Series series Anthem Health and Society Series
    This book concerns HIV prevention. The authors argue that until the world focuses its attention on the social issues carried and revealed by AIDS, it is unlikely that HIV transmission will be eradicated or even significantly reduced. Currently we are witnessing the remedicalisation or the continuing biomedicalisation of HIV prevention, which began in earnest in 1996/7 after the development of ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remaking HIV Prevention in the 21st Century

    The Promise of TasP, U=U and PrEP

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection brings together the social dimensions of three key aspects of recent biomedical advance in HIV research: Treatment as Prevention (TasP), new technologies such as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), and the Undetectable equals Untransmittable (U=U) movement. The growth of new forms of biomedical HIV prevention has created hope for the future, signalling the possibility of a ... Read more

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  • Sustaining Safe Sex

    Gay Communities Respond to AIDS

    Series series Social Aspects of AIDS
    This book focuses on the cultural processes at work within the Australian gay communitites, which have made significant efforts at preventing the spread of the HIV virus. Sustaining Safe Sex has clear relevance to work throughout the world. ... Read more

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