When Communities Assess their AIDS Epidemics

Results of Rapid Assessment of HIV/AIDS in Eleven U.S. Cities
Herausgeber: Bowser, Benjamin P.; Singer, Merrill; Quimby, Ernest

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Produktbeschreibung

When Communities Assess their AIDS Epidemics is a detailed ethnographic description of the AIDS epidemic in ten U.S. cities and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9780739107522
• ISBN-10: 0739107526
• Artikelnr.: 22734359

Autorenporträt

Benjamin P. Bowser is professor of sociology and social services at California State University at Hayward. Ernest Quimby is graduate associate professor of sociology at Howard University. Merrill Singer is professor of anthropology and senior research scientist at the Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention at the University of Connecticut.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Exploring the Boundaries of the AIDS Epidemic in the U.S.
Chapter 2 Rapid Assessment: A Method in Community-Based Research
Chapter 3 Responding to the AIDS Crisis in Newark, New Jersey
Chapter 4 AIDS Health Emergency in Chicago
Chapter 5 Confined Youth Try to Make it Real, Despite the Odds: RARE in
Baltimore
Chapter 6 AIDS in Philadelphia: Emerging from the Shadow of Crack
Chapter 7 AIDS in the Shadow of Power: Washington, D.C.
Chapter 8 Rapid Assessment in Oakland: HIV, Race, Class, and Bureaucracy
Chapter 9 The AIDS Epidemic in Palm Beach County, Florida
Chapter 10 The Risks of Paradise: Project RARE and the Fight Against AIDS
in the U.S. Virgin Islands
Chapter 11 The RARE Experience in Miami
Chapter 12 Twilight's Last Gleaning: Rapid Assessment of Late Night HIV
Risk in Hartford, CT
Chapter 13 RARE Research in Preventing HIV among Men Who Have Sex with Men
in Pima County, Arizona
Chapter 14 Conclusion: Assessing Primary, Secondary, and Future Benefits of
Project RARE