A witch's curse, an imperialist conspiracy, a racist plot—HIV/AIDS is a catastrophic health
crisis with complex cultural dimensions. From small villages to the international system …

Medical sociology ranges from studies of formal medical care to those of health, healing,
and caring practices outside the health care system. This field has had a history of …

How do children and young people experience and understand sport and physical activity,
and what value do they attach to physical education and physical activity? This important …

AIDS prevention efforts for injection drug users (IDUs) since 1988 in over 60 inner-city areas
within the United States have been based on a “provider-client” model called “street-based …

This article introduces the visual interpretation narrative exercise, an innovative visual
research technique piloted in 2008 during doctoral fieldwork in Madagascar. Designed in …

Drawing on original field research and agency theory, we examine the operations and
internal workings of community-based outreach projects to combat AIDS among out-of …

This paper aims to challenge social marketers to extend their research repertoire beyond
restrictive 'individualised rationalities' driving reliance on scientifically proven evidence …

This work examines the discursive bases to Hong Konger identities by using a repertoire of
anti-mainland and pro-democracy graffiti that impose alternative, counter-geographies onto …

famously argued that the meaning of an image does not become apparent until it is
accompanied and explicated by text. Pictures are ambiguous, he suggests, and their …

This article draws upon inductive research to explore the complex liminal and temporal
dimensionality of storytelling in a family-business context, uncovering alternative social …