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Movement, Knowledge, Emotion : gay activism and HIV/AIDS in Australia. - 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (205 pages))

This book is about community activism around HIV/AIDS in Australia. It looks at the role that the gay community played in the social, medical and political response to the virus. Drawing conclusions about the cultural impact of social movements, the author argues that AIDS activism contributed to improving social attitudes towards gay men and lesbians in Australia, while also challenging some entrenched cultural patterns of the Australian medical system, allowing greater scope for non-medical intervention into the domain of health and illness. The book documents an important chapter in the history of public health in Australia and explores how HIV/AIDS came to be a defining issue in the history of gay and lesbian rights in Australia.


English.

ISBN: 1921862394 9781921862397

Source: OAPEN

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
Since 1976

Subjects--Topical Terms:
AIDS activists--Australia.
Gay activists--Australia.
Homosexuality--Political aspects--Australia.
HIV infections--Government policy--Australia.
AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--Australia.
Gay liberation movement--Australia.
Medicine.
Medicine: general issues.
Public health and preventive medicine.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Politics and government.
Medical / Family & General Practice.
Political Science.
Social conditions.
AIDS activists
AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects
Gay activists
Gay liberation movement
HIV infections--Government policy
Homosexuality--Political aspects

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Australia--Social conditions--1976-
Australia

Subjects--Index Terms: Public health Hiv Aids Homosexuality Gay Government policy Political aspects Australia

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: Internet Access / AEGMCT

Dewey Class. No.: 306.7660994