Culture and Sexual Risk

Front Cover
Hans ten Brummelhuis, Gilbert Herdt
Routledge, Aug 2, 2004 - Social Science - 384 pages
Brummelhuis and Herdt provide an intense examination of sexual risk and its cultural configurations heretofore missing from the AIDS literature. The chapters on Western gay men speak to the pressing methodological, conceptual and theoretical needs in HIV/AIDS research while providing an understanding and documentation of gay men's lives within the emerging corpus of lesbian and gay studies. Chapters on the Philippines, Brazil, Haiti and Africa explore the cultural, political and economic contexts surrounding the transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS in these cultures.
 

Contents

Culture Poverty and the Dynamics of
5
Culture Sex Research and AIDS Prevention in Africa
29
Vulnerability to HIV Infection Among Three Hill
53
CONTEXTUALIZING SEXUAL RISK
79
Sexuality AIDS and Gender Norms Among
97
The Dynamics of Condom Use in Thai Sex Work
115
Risky Business? Men Who Buy Heterosexual
135
Part HI SEXUAL RISK AMONG WESTERN GAY
157
Risk in Context The Use of Sexual Diary Data
205
Linguistic Perspectives
227
THE STUDY OF CULTURE AND SEXUAL RISK
241
The Social and Cultural Construction of Sexual Risk
257
The Study of AIDS
285
Anthropology and Intervention
315
Index
339
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Culture and Sexual Risk: Anthropological Perspectives on AIDS
Han ten Brummelhuis,Gilbert H. Herdt
Limited preview - 1995
Culture and Sexual Risk: Anthropological Perspectives on AIDS
Han ten Brummelhuis,Gilbert H. Herdt
Limited preview - 1995
Culture and Sexual Risk: Anthropological Perspectives on AIDS
Han ten Brummelhuis,Gilbert H. Herdt
Limited preview - 1995
View all »

Common terms and phrases

Abdool Karim active Africa AIDS prevention AIDS research Akha anal intercourse anal sex anthropology areas barrio bisexual Bolton cent chapter Clatts clients condoms context Coxon cultural discourse discussion disease drug economic effective epidemic erotic ethnographic example factors farang gender girls Haiti Haitian Herdt heterosexual high-risk hilltribe HIV infection HIV transmission HIV/AIDS Hmong homosexual important individuals International intervention interview involved issues Journal Lindenbaum Lisu living male Medical Anthropology methods negotiation oral sex Paper presented participants political Port-au-Prince Preston-Whyte problem programmes prostitutes relation relationship responsibility risk behaviour risk groups risky role rural Haiti safer sex Schoepf Sex Research sex tourism sex workers sexual acts sexual behaviour Sexual Diary sexual partners sexual risk spread of HIV STDs strategies stress Thai sex Thailand Third World tion traditional tribal unprotected unsafe sex urban variables video clubs Western woman women young Zaire

About the author (2004)

Han ten Brummelhuis, as a Thai specialist with an interest in medical anthropology, has followed the Thai AIDS epidemic from its beginning in 1987. He became involved in several projects dealing with cultural and social aspects of AIDS in Thailand. Recently he studied Thai marriage and family, Thai communities in Europe, and the Buddhist potential for HIV/AIDS care. Gilbert Herdt is Director of the Center for Culture and Mental Health Research, and Professor of the Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago. His most recent books are Children of Horizons: How Gay and Lesbian Youth Are Forging a New Way Out of the Closet (with Andrew Boxer) and Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in History and Culture.

Bibliographic information

TitleCulture and Sexual Risk
EditorsHans ten Brummelhuis, Gilbert Herdt
PublisherRoutledge, 2004
ISBN1135306753, 9781135306755
Length384 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Social Science / Anthropology / General
Social Science / Anthropology / Physical
Social Science / Disease & Health Issues
Social Science / Sociology / General
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan