Health Issues Confronting Minority Men Who Have Sex with Men
. Ed(S): Loue, Sana, Jd, Phd, Mssa
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Description for Health Issues Confronting Minority Men Who Have Sex with Men
hardcover. Focuses on both gay/queer-self-identified men from diverse minority communities (African American, Latino, Native American, Asian and Pacific Islander) and men of these ethnic communities who have sex with men but are not gay/queer-self-identified. This book deals with the health issue affecting minority MSM. Editor(s): Loue, Sana, JD, PhD, MSSA. Num Pages: 260 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, 5 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 565.
Although there has been an increasing public interest in minority men who have sex with men (MSM), much of that attention has focused on HIV risk and has been concerned with lurid details of people’s sex lives. Relatively little attention has addressed the multiple health issues confronting this population, the risks that are associated with various health conditions (apart from HIV), or the innovative strategies that have been developed to address them.
Each section of this edited book will be devoted to a particular health issue affecting minority MSM. Each section will consist of one or more scholarly chapters that ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer Nature United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387745381
SKU
V9780387745381
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About . Ed(S): Loue, Sana, Jd, Phd, Mssa
Sana Loue, J.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. is known internationally for her HIV research with minority communities, as well as research ethics and epidemiology. She currently facilitates a group for minority MSM around issues of partner violence and abuse and is the Principal Investigator of a foundation-funded study examining the co-occurrence of mental illness and HIV risk among African-American men who have ... Read more
Reviews for Health Issues Confronting Minority Men Who Have Sex with Men
From the reviews: "Loue … brings together a collection of writing – scholarly chapters, personal essays, and poems – reflecting a spectrum of men who have sex with men (MSM) from a range of ethnic communities in the U.S. The 23 contributors include health researchers, health care providers, and community activists, as well as individuals ... Read more