Health Issues Confronting Minority Men Who Have Sex with Men / Edition 1

by Sana Loue

Overview

Although there has been an increasing public interest in minority men who have sex with men (MSM), much of that attention has focused on HIV risk and has been concerned with lurid details of people’s sex lives. Relatively little attention has addressed the multiple health issues confronting this population, the risks that are associated with various health conditions (apart from HIV), or the innovative strategies that have been developed to address them.

Each section of this edited book will be devoted to a particular health issue affecting minority MSM. Each section will consist of one or more scholarly chapters that address the particular issue, followed by a chapter or short piece from an individual associated with a nonprofit organization or public health department. In addition, each section will contain one or more writings from minority MSM regarding their experiences and/or perspective on the issue at hand. This book uniquely focuses on both gay/queer-self-identified men from diverse minority communities (African American, Latino, Native American, Asian and Pacific Islander) and men of these ethnic communities who have sex with men but are not gay/queer-self-identified.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387745381
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	12/04/2007
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Sana Loue, J.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. is known internationally for her HIV research with minority communities, as well as research ethics and epidemiology. She currently facilitates a group for minority MSM around issues of partner violence and abuse and is the Principal Investigator of a foundation-funded study examining the co-occurrence of mental illness and HIV risk among African-American men who have sex with men. She has authored/edited several books with Springer, including: Encyclopedia of Aging and Public Health, Case Studies in Ethics and HIV Research, Assessing Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Health, and Sexual Partnering, Sexual Practices, and Health.

Table of Contents

Identities.- Defining Men who have Sex with Men (MSM).- Sexual Abuse.- Childhood Sexual Abuse and its Sequelae Among Latino Gay and Bisexual Men.- Mental Illness And Substance Use.- Body Image Disturbance and its Related Disorders.- Substance Use among Minority Men who have Sex with Men.- Homelessness.- Homelessness among Substance-Using Minority Men who have Sex with Men.- “My Body and My Spirit Took Care of Me”.- HIV/AIDS.- National Trends in HIV Transmission Among Minority Men who have Sex with Men.- HIV/AIDS in Cleveland: A Case Study of One Community.- HIV, Multiple Minority Status, And Stigma.- Why Tell? Serostatus Disclosure and HIV Stigma among HIV Seropositive Asians and Pacific Islander Men who have Sex with Men in New York City.- Disclosure of HIV Status and Mental Health among Latino Men who have Sex with Men.- Building Community.- The Beyond Identities Community Center: A Community-Focused, Rights-Based Program to Address HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health Among Young Men Who have Sex with Men of Color in Cleveland, Ohio.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Jesus Ramirez-Valles, MPH, PhD (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Description: This is a collection of articles on health issues, mainly from a psychological perspective, of ethnic minority men who have sex with men.
Purpose: The purpose is to go beyond the narrow view of HIV/AIDS into the health of men who have sex with men. This is a welcome contribution to the field, given the limited research on this population. Unfortunately, with a couple of exceptions, most of the chapters are on HIV/AIDS and from a somewhat limited psychological perspective.
Audience: The editor and the contributing authors bring scientific and community-level expertise to the book and many of them are well established researchers. The audience includes undergraduate and graduate students and practitioners.
Features: The book covers a variety of issues related to HIV/AIDS, such as stigma, substance use, disclosure, and identity. Unlike other compilations, this one includes narratives and cases from community members. Yet, the book does little to look beyond HIV/AIDS and its psychology.
Assessment: The strength of the book lies in its focus on ethnic minorities, a perspective not available in other books on gay men's health. A weakness is its narrow focus on psychological issues and HIV/AIDS.

Doody's Review Service

From the reviews:

"Loue … brings together a collection of writing – scholarly chapters, personal essays, and poems – reflecting a spectrum of men who have sex with men (MSM) from a range of ethnic communities in the U.S. The 23 contributors include health researchers, health care providers, and community activists, as well as individuals offering first-person perspectives on minority MSM. … For professionals and students in public health, social workers, and interested general readers." (Book News, April, 2008)

"Loue … has organized this collection of literature reviews and research studies, interspersed with personal stories, to highlight infrequently studied health and mental health issues, such as childhood sexual abuse, body image disorder, and HIV-related stigma, in MSM. … This book will interest advanced students of public health, health education, and social work, and scholars who integrate qualitative and quantitative methods into their research. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through professionals." (P. Lefler, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (9), 2008)

"This is a collection of articles on health issues, mainly from a psychological perspective, of ethnic minority men who have sex with men. … a welcome contribution to the field, given the limited research on this population. … The audience includes undergraduate and graduate students and practitioners. … The strength of the book lies in its focus on ethnic minorities, a perspective not available in other books on gay men’s health." (Jesus Ramirez-Valles, Doody’s Review Service, August, 2008)

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