Compulsory Screening: advertising AIDS in Britain, 1986-89

Rhodes, Tim; Shaughnessy, Robert

doi:10.1332/030557390782454620

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“…As re-skilled risk managers, individuals are invited to act as responsible citizens by modifying their sexual repertoires and relationships. This process has been characterised by the following national and local mass media advice:`Protect yourself, use a condom';`You know the risks, the decision is yours';`AIDS: You're as safe as you want to be'; and`It's never too late to negotiate' (Rhodes and Shaughnessy 1990). Posited as an outcome of rational choice-making and negotiation skills, sexual safety has been primarily envisaged as being dependent on an individual's capacity to talk to their partners (Scott and Freeman 1995).…”

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Love and intimacy in relationship risk management: HIV positive people and their sexual partners

Rhodes

Cusick

2000

Sociology Health & Illness

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This paper is about intimacy and its role in relationship risk management. Drawing on qualitative interviews with HIV positive people and their primary sexual partners it becomes apparent that a key tension in relationship risk management is the balance struck between`relationship safety' and`viral danger'. We find`love' and`intimacy' to be key features of relationship survival, with relationship intimacy and security signalled or strengthened by unprotected sex. Focusing oǹ discordant' partnerships in particular, we note that relationship risk management is a fragile process characterised by contradiction and anxiety, at once involving risk reduction and risk opportunity. We conclude that the intimate relationship is a prime source of everyday risk management which may be defended, even at potentially high cost, in the time of sexual epidemic. We also note that previous research has painted an overly calculative picture of risk decision-making in which the lived experiences of intimacy and emotions are largely missing.

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Section: Hiv Risk Managementmentioning

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Love and intimacy in relationship risk management: HIV positive people and their sexual partners

Rhodes

Cusick

2000

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…Charges for eye and dental checks, introduced in 1989, have been heavily criticised for deterring the use of preventive services {The Independent, 1990a, p.6). The high profile media campaigns on public health issues have also attracted criticism (Rhodes and Shaughnessy, 1990). Others have argued that screening for cervical and breast cancer along the lines proposed is not the best use of resources (Barclay, 1989;McCullough, 1989;Mason, 1990).…”

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Looking Forward to the Past? The Politics of Public Health

Baggott¹

1991

J. Soc. Pol.

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This article explores the role of political agents, institutions, circumstances, and ideas in the development of public health policies in Britain. The first part attempts to define public health. The second section of the article looks at the experience of the Victorian public health movement. The final part considers the re-emergence of the public health perspective. The underlying theme of the article is that an awareness of the political dimension, both contemporary and historical, improves our understanding of developments in the field of public health. The main conclusions reached are: first, that given the formidable political obstacles which exist, public health reform will only succeed if the reformers themselves operate with full awareness of the political dimension; second, that the modern public health debate is unlikely to be resolved in the short term.

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“…Then, being HIV positive was a relatively new and unknown condition, with little in the way of treatment and uncertainty as to how it might progress and spread. At that time the media reinforced feelings of fear by exploiting deep-seated anxiety about sex, disease and death with TV commercials featuring dire warnings and apocalyptic images of tombstones (Rhodes & Shaughnessy, 1990). Many popular newspapers sought to link the risk firmly with particular demonised groups such as drug users and gay men and disputed the relevance of health education campaigns to the heterosexual population (Clatts & Mutchler, 1989;Clarke, 1992;Beharrell, 1993).…”

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Insights into the social context of living with a dual diagnosis of HIV and cancer: a qualitative, thematic analysis of popular discourse in London newspapers

2019

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As growing numbers of people living with HIV also develop cancer, a holistic understanding of their experiences is essential to the provision of patient centred care. Both conditions are linked to powerful beliefs in our society that may affect experiences. This study explored how HIV and cancer were represented in UK newspapers to gain insight into the social context of living with a dual diagnosis. We performed an initial content analysis of HIV articles and of cancer articles published in the free London newspapers, The Metro and The Evening Standard between 2012 and 2017, followed by qualitative thematic analysis and in-depth analysis of selected articles of exemplar cases. Both conditions were presented very differently. The underlying subtext was that cancer could happen to any of us. HIV was framed as a potentially dangerous, stigmatising phenomenon affecting 'others'. Popular discourse about HIV within news media remains largely negative and stigmatizing. People living with a dual diagnosis of HIV and cancer may choose to prioritise the sharing of the more socially acceptable condition, cancer, in order to access support. The negotiation of cancer healthcare services is likely to be adversely influenced by the social burden of HIV related stigma.

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Compulsory Screening: advertising AIDS in Britain, 1986-89

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Love and intimacy in relationship risk management: HIV positive people and their sexual partners

Love and intimacy in relationship risk management: HIV positive people and their sexual partners

Looking Forward to the Past? The Politics of Public Health

Insights into the social context of living with a dual diagnosis of HIV and cancer: a qualitative, thematic analysis of popular discourse in London newspapers

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