Product details
ISBN
9781447372493
Published
2025-01-01
Publisher
Bristol University Press
Height
203 mm
Width
127 mm
Age
P, G, 06, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
176
Author
Biographical note
Morten Skovdal is Professor of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Researchers, healthcare providers and policy makers working in the fields of HIV prevention. Professional/activist/academic organisations.
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a drug taken by HIV-negative people before and after sex that reduces the risk of getting HIV. This book demonstrates that the PrEP journey is infused with paradoxes and argues for a more social and relational approach to public health.
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1. Introduction: PrEP and the Biomedical turn in HIV prevention
2. Two empirical case studies
3. Accessible, yet inaccessible
4. Healthy, yet on treatment
5. Responsible, yet irresponsible
6. Protective, yet unprotective
7. Acceptable, yet stigmatising
8. Liberating, yet restraining
9. Problematic, yet productive paradoxes?
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No previous book has set out to explore the ambiguities and paradoxes that PrEP users must encounter, negotiate and respond to in order to successfully engage with PrEP.
Product details
ISBN
9781447372493
Published
2025-01-01
Publisher
Bristol University Press
Height
203 mm
Width
127 mm
Age
P, G, 06, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
176
Author