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HIV in South Africa
Talking about the big thing
Winner of the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2008 Of approximately 37 million HIV positive people in the world, 24.7 million live in sub-Saharan Africa and about 5..5 million in South Africa. Despite its relatively powerful economy and infrastructure, South Africa has been dramatically...
Published July 30th 2007 by Routledge
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Lines of Narrative
Psychosocial Perspectives
Series: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
This volume brilliantly advances our understanding of the use of narrative in the social sciences. It brings together contemporary work on narrative theory and methods and presents a fascinating range of case-studies, from Princess Diana's Panorama interview to the memoirs of the wives of US...
Published December 6th 2000 by Routledge
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Culture in Psychology
Culture in Psychology breaks new ground by attempting to understand the complexity and specificity of cultural identities today. It rejects the idea that Western culture is a standard, or that any culture is homogenous and stable. Equally, it rejects the notion that culture is a mechanism that...
Published September 20th 2000 by Routledge