The making of a risk object: AIDS, gay citizenship and the meaning of blood donation in Sweden in the early 1980s

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 384-398

  Berner, Boel ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

AIDS; Blood donation; Gay citizenship; Risk objects; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GROUP PROCESS; HISTORY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SWEDEN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD DONORS; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; GROUP PROCESSES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLITICS; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SWEDEN;

EID: 79952238274     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01299.x     Document Type: Article

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