Overview
- Offers a rare critical perspective of the public health response to HIV/AIDS in Ghana
- Articulates arguments using both empirical evidence and lived experiences from the global south
- Articulates relevant philosophies, concepts, and approaches in public health, public policy and social science
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health (BRIEFSPUBLIC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book is also timely.It is written at a time when public health actors are repositioning themselves to be competent users of not only pharmaceutic vaccines, but also social vaccines.
Topics explored in the chapters include:
- Public health approaches to HIV and AIDS
- Access to life-saving public health goods by persons infected or affected by HIV
- “They are criminals”: AIDS, the law, harm reduction, and the socially excluded
- Developing socially and ethically responsive National AIDS policies
Balancing the Socio-political and Medico-ethical Dimensions of HIV: A Social Public Health Approach is compelling reading for a broad spectrum of readers. The book will appeal to professionals, scholars, and students in public health, public policy, bioethics, and social sciences, as well as medical anthropologists, sociologists, and global health scholars. Public health economists, lay politicians, and civil society organizations advocating for health equity will find the book useful as well.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Amos Laar, PhD obtained his BSc (in Nutrition and Biochemistry), MPH, PhD (in Public Health) from the University of Ghana, and MA (in Bioethics) from the University of Minnesota, USA. He is a Bioethicist, and a Tenure-Track Academic at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana - Accra, Ghana. His earlier work makes significant contribution to public health scholarship on women’s reproductive health, particularly the socio-cultural, socio-ethical, and medico-ethical dimensions of HIV. Currently his research and professional practice straddle three distinct yet related areas of public health: Bioethics; Public Health Nutrition; and Social Public Health. Through these, his scholarship contributes to a deeper understanding of how physical environments, social environments, and structural forces affect realization of health. He has authored over 90 scholarly works on the above topics. He is a mentor – having supervised over 70 graduate and undergraduate theses from universities in Africa (University of Ghana, University of South Africa), Asia (Nagasaki University of Japan), Europe (University of Sheffield, UK), and North America (University of South Carolina, USA).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Balancing the Socio-political and Medico-ethical Dimensions of HIV
Book Subtitle: A Social Public Health Approach
Authors: Amos Laar
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Public Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09191-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09190-2Published: 09 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09191-9Published: 08 July 2022
Series ISSN: 2192-3698
Series E-ISSN: 2192-3701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 98
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Health, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Medicine/Public Health, general, Nursing Ethics, International Relations, Public Policy