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Prisons and Aids: A Public Health Challenge 1st Edition

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Ronald L. Braithwaite (Author), Theodore M. Hammett (Author), Robert M. Mayberry (Author)
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ISBN-13: 978-0787903084
ISBN-10: 0787903086
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Product Details

  • Series: Jossey-Bass Health Series
  • Hardcover: 247 pages
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (January 15, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0787903086
  • ISBN-13: 978-0787903084
  • Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 0.8 x 9.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,833,543 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars3 guys write a lot on 2 topics
By Jeffery Mingo on September 26, 2005
Format: Hardcover
This book has three authors; thus, that's more than a monograph but less than an anthology. If you read the book, you would never know which person wrote what. However, there is so much information here, and from so many disciplines, that there is no way one person could have put all this together. Surprisingly, this book has no endnotes. All the references come at the end of the entire book. bell hooks does this in order to lure in everyday readers. I assume the authors had that same goal, but this book had far too many graphs and statistical numbers for a layperson to understand anyway. I am not sure that the authors succeeded at trying to be both accessible and academic.

Sometimes, the authors do far too much summarizing, rather than analyzing. Still, I applaud them for showing that they did their homework. Most chapters are approximately 20 pages long, yet in the middle of the book, there is a chapter that is 50 pages long. The book should have been divided into parts where that chapter should have come at the beginning or the end.

This book reveals disturbing things about homophobia and prisons. Some incarcerated teens said they would laugh and ignore any AIDS prevention messages coming from middle-aged gay men. In another chapter, prisoners presumed AIDS transmissions in jails comes from injecting drugs because they could not accept that men were having sex together in prison.

The authors clearly have recommenations, but they come here subtly. They want prisons to have clean needles and condoms. Those aren't radical propositions, so they could have just come out and said it.
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