Making sense of AIDS : culture, sexuality, and power in Melanesia /

In Melanesia, rates of HIV infection are among the highest in the Pacific and increasing rapidly, with grave humanitarian, development, and political implications. There is a great need for social research on HIV/AIDS in the region to provide better insights into the sensitive issues surrounding HIV...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Butt, Leslie, 1960-, Eves, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2008.
Temas:
AIDS (Disease) > Melanesia.
AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects > Melanesia.
AIDS (Disease) > Religious aspects.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Medical policy.
HIV Infections > epidemiology
Sexual Behavior
Religion and Medicine
Public Opinion
Health Policy
HIV Infections > prevention & control
Sida > Aspect religieux.
Médecine > Aspect religieux.
Politique sanitaire.
MEDICAL > AIDS & HIV.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > AIDS & HIV.
MEDICAL > General.
Medicine > Religious aspects
Medical policy
AIDS (Disease)
AIDS (Disease) > Religious aspects
AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects
Religion
Gesundheitspolitik
Sexualverhalten
Öffentliche Meinung
Aids
AIDS.
Sociale aspecten.
Melanesia
Melanesien
Melanesië.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • When there's no accessing basic health care : local politics and responses to HIV/AIDS at Lake Kopiago, Papua New Guinea / Nicole Haley
  • "It's mutual attraction" : transvestites and the risk of HIV transmission in urban Papua / Jack Morin
  • Fear and loathing in Papua New Guinea : sexual health in a nation under siege / Lawrence J. Hammar
  • Why are Kanak women more vulnerable than others to HIV? ethnographic and statistical insights from New Caledonia / Christine Salomon and Christine Hamelin
  • Buying betel and selling sex : contested boundaries, risk milieus, and discourses about HIV/AIDS in the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea / Bettina Beer
  • Silence speaks volumes : elite responses to AIDS in highlands Papua / Leslie Butt.
  • The trouble with trousers : gossip, kastom, and sexual culture in Vanuatu / Maggie Cummings
  • Love as sacrifice : the romantic underground and beliefs about HIV/AIDS in Manokwari, Papua / Sarah Hewat
  • Smoke from fire : desire and secrecy in Auki, Solomon Islands / Holly Buchanan-Aruwafu and Rose Maebiru
  • "You have to understand, some of us are glad AIDS has arrived" : Christianity and condoms among the Huli, Papua New Guinea / Holly Wardlow
  • Moral reform and miraculous cures : Christian healing and AIDS in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea / Richard Eves
  • SikAIDS : deconstructing the awareness campaign in rural West New Britain, Papua New Guinea / Naomi M. McPherson
  • Fitting condoms on culture : rethinking approaches to HIV prevention in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea / Katherine Lepani.

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