AIDS Prevention and Services: Community Based Research [Hardcover]

Johannes P. Van Vugt (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 089789264X | ISBN-13: 978-0897892643 | Publication Date: December 30, 1993

Community based organizations assist participants in developing social skills and familiar language for negotiating and practicing safer, non-risky behaviors. AIDS education and awareness is best achieved in local community groups through the use of interactive group sharing and non-professional language. Supportive and informed mutual aid can be extended through community based organizations and can alleviate the psychological effects of isolation, homophobia, abandonment, and political disinterest created by society at large. AIDS therapy and prevention is best accomplished in settings that encourage one-to-one communication and compassion. The seventeen authors of this masterful compilation of AIDS research and policy make a strong case for community organizations as valiant warriors in one of this century's most threatening epidemics against humanity.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“...Van Vugt demonstrates the effectiveness of community-based research in AIDS prevention by presenting how-to-models for those involved in AIDS research and programs. The clear writing, good organization, pertinent references, and sprinkling of illustrations make this a strong work for those working on AIDS in the community. Faculty; pre-professional; practioners.”–Choice

“...a testimony to the merits of community-based research as a catalyst for social change in AIDS prevention and services....Together, the articles make an important contribution to the ongoing discourse in the field of social inquiry....Some of the contributors to this book have formal affiliations with academic institutions; but most are involved primarily in community-based research. This makes the book all the more rare and important in the research field.”–Community Alternatives

“This volume succeeds in putting forth a value of community-based research. It also shows how it can be intimately linked to the work of community-based organizations to achieve the objectives of disease prevention, health promotion, and social change.”– Journal of Community Health

“AIDS Prevention and Services: Community Based Research is a path-finding book. Through the first-hand experience of anthropoligists, sociologists, epidemiologists, activists, and others working in the community with people most affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, we are led to an understanding that we need to reframe--and reform--government responses to the epidemic.”–Philip R. Lee M.D. and Pat Franks Institute for Health Policy Studies University of California, San Francisco

“Van Vugt successfully unites both theory and action in this highly valuable state-of-the-art synopsis of AIDS prevention and services. A must for anyone seriously interested in this topic.”–Douglas Feldman, Ph.D. Chair, Applied Anthropology and AIDS Network Department of Epidemiology and Public Health University of Miami, School of Medicine

“In contrast to simplistic mass media insistence on "guilty" vs. "innocent victims", this volume reveals the complex dynamics of emotion, demographics and social order at the core of the AIDS crisis.”–Sarah Schulman, novelist Author of People in Trouble

About the Author

JOHANNES P. VAN VUGT is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Saint Mary's College of California.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: Bergin & Garvey (December 30, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 089789264X
• ISBN-13: 978-0897892643
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)