Sexual Interactions and HIV Risk: New Conceptual Perspectives in European Research

ISBN-13: 9780748403455 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 272 str.

Luc Vancampenhoudt; Dominique Hausser; Gustavo Guizzardi

Opis

How sexual risk is negotiated betwen partners is an area of considerable theoretical interest, with the dominant models of analysis focusing on individual decisions to engage in sexual behaviour and relying on rational decision-making. This work, based on the findings from work co-ordinated by the Centre d'Etudes Sociologiques in Brussels, offers a social critique of the theories and perspectives which have currently been brought to bear in the study of sexual risk behaviour and HIV.

Spis treści

Part 1 New Conceptual Perspectives: Understanding HIV-Related Risk Behaviour; Towards an Alternative Model of Sexual Behaviour; Rationality and Preventive Norms; Ambivalence in the Social Discourse on AIDS; Social Network and Normative Tensions. Part 2 Operationalising Theories for HIV/AIDS Prevention: Social Interaction and Risk-Related Behaviour; The Rational and the Non-Rational; New Perspectives for HIV/AIDS Prevention.

O autorze

Mitchell Cohen, Gustavo Guizzardi, Dominique Hausser, Luc Van Campenhoudt