Suchergebnisse

1. Posing the problems -- 2. Mapping the pandemic -- 3. A biographical overview -- 4. Depending on health care for survival -- 5. Challenging livelihoods -- 6. Changing sexual lives -- 7. Shaping reproductive futures -- 8. Human rights : paths to cosmopolitanism -- 9. Back to the future.

Doyal brings together findings from a wide range of empirical studies spanning the social sciences to explore experiences of HIV positive people across the world. This will illustrate how the disease is physically manifested and psychologically internalised by individuals in diverse ways depending on the biological, social, cultural and economic circumstances in which they find themselves. A proper understanding of these commonalities and differences will be essential if future strategies are to be effective in mitigating the effects of HIV and AIDS.

ch. 1. The problems of empiricism -- ch. 2. Explanation in the natural sciences -- ch. 3. Explanation in the social sciences -- ch. 4. The social character of actions and persons -- ch. 5. Freedom, self-understanding and ideology -- ch. 6. Rationality, language and relativism -- ch. 7. What is wrong with relativism? -- ch. 8. Social structure and its moral evaluation.

New legislation should raise the moral standards of professional and personal life, but the proposed new mental health bill fails to deal with serious ethical problems in the existing act