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Latino Gay Men and HIV: Culture, Sexuality, and Risk Behavior

This would have enabled the reader to bring a critical attitude to the research findings reported in the book and would also facilitate an understanding of why it is that so many studies report conflicting results. Finally, due to its ambitious breadth of coverage, the book does not always achieve sufficient depth in its discussion of conceptual issues. For example, the critiques of prohibition and social marketing are not developed sufficiently to allow readers to appreciate their value. Also, certain widely used concepts and constructs such as stress, behaviour change, and risk are not problematized. Recent work in social constructionist health psychology has drawn attention to the role of language in constituting our experience of health and illness. A discussion of the problematic status of some of the most widely used concepts in health promotion research would have allowed the reader to critically reflect upon some of the assumptions about health, illness and human agency which structure health promotion literature. Overall, I would recommend this book to students and researchers in health promotion. It constitutes a useful resource for those who wish to identify gaps in the literature and for those who are planning to conduct integrative, interdisciplinary research into health promotion. I was most impressed by the authors’ commitment to the integration of macroand micro-levels of analysis and their sustained effort at establishing links between psychological theories and ‘real life’ health promotion practice.