Full Product Details
Author: Neil Mckeganey ,
Marina Barnard ,
Priscilla Alexander
Publisher: Open University Press
Imprint: Open University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.200kg
ISBN: 9780335194001
ISBN 10: 0335194001
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 16 May 1996
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
"""...the accessibility of the book and the contemporary importance of the subject matter will commend it to a wide academic audience. It should also be essential reading for 'armchair moralisers."" - Community Care ""I could not put this compelling book down...to be recommended to research sceptics. It is rich in evidence and provides a good base from which to launch discussions within the sexual health curriculum."" - Nursing Times""...rich descriptions of the lives and experiences of street working prostitutes and their clients. This book will be of use to students in providing them with empirical data as well as giving them an insight into the everyday experiences of women selling sex from thestreets."" - Women's Studies Network (UK) Association Newsletter ""I would recommend this book to anyone interested in women's health, and social issues associated with prostitution."" - Journal of Public Health Medicine"
...the accessibility of the book and the contemporary importance of the subject matter will commend it to a wide academic audience. It should also be essential reading for 'armchair moralisers. - Community Care I could not put this compelling book down...to be recommended to research sceptics. It is rich in evidence and provides a good base from which to launch discussions within the sexual health curriculum. - Nursing Times ...rich descriptions of the lives and experiences of street working prostitutes and their clients. This book will be of use to students in providing them with empirical data as well as giving them an insight into the everyday experiences of women selling sex from thestreets. - Women's Studies Network (UK) Association Newsletter I would recommend this book to anyone interested in women's health, and social issues associated with prostitution. - Journal of Public Health Medicine
""...the accessibility of the book and the contemporary importance of the subject matter will commend it to a wide academic audience. It should also be essential reading for 'armchair moralisers."" - Community Care ""I could not put this compelling book down...to be recommended to research sceptics. It is rich in evidence and provides a good base from which to launch discussions within the sexual health curriculum."" - Nursing Times""...rich descriptions of the lives and experiences of street working prostitutes and their clients. This book will be of use to students in providing them with empirical data as well as giving them an insight into the everyday experiences of women selling sex from thestreets."" - Women's Studies Network (UK) Association Newsletter ""I would recommend this book to anyone interested in women's health, and social issues associated with prostitution."" - Journal of Public Health Medicine
"...the accessibility of the book and the contemporary importance of the subject matter will commend it to a wide academic audience. It should also be essential reading for 'armchair moralisers." - Community Care "I could not put this compelling book down...to be recommended to research sceptics. It is rich in evidence and provides a good base from which to launch discussions within the sexual health curriculum." - Nursing Times"...rich descriptions of the lives and experiences of street working prostitutes and their clients. This book will be of use to students in providing them with empirical data as well as giving them an insight into the everyday experiences of women selling sex from thestreets." - Women's Studies Network (UK) Association Newsletter "I would recommend this book to anyone interested in women's health, and social issues associated with prostitution." - Journal of Public Health Medicine
Author Information
Neil McKeganey is Reader and Director of the Centre for Drug Misuse Research at Glasgow University. He has carried out research on drug misuse, prostitution and HIV for the last ten years. He has published numerous articles on these topics and is the author, with Marina Barnard, of AIDS, Drugs and Sexual Risk Lives in the Balance Open University Press, 1992. Marina Barnard is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Drug Misuse Research at the University of Glasgow. She has carried out research on drug use, prostitution and HIV for the last seven years, and has published widely in each of these fields. She is now carrying out research on young people's routes into drug misuse in Scotland.
