Gerry V Stimson
Biographic Data
| ID | 100717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerry V Stimson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerry V |
| FAMILY NAME | Stimson |
| SIGNATURE | STIMSON G V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9559-0207 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Post-Brexit opportunities for tobacco policy reform and tobacco harm reduction in the UK
My time with the International Journal of Drug Policy
Drug policy and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa
International Journal of Drug Policy moves to twelve issues
How credible are international databases for understanding substance use and related problems
Stigma as a public health tool
Nicotine
Stigma as a public health tool
Years of the International Journal of Drug Policy
Asking the wrong questions about e-cigarettes? A response to Stan Shatenstein
Disruptive innovations
Is there any legal and scientific basis for classifying electronic cigarettes as medications
Qualitative social research in addictions publishing
Harm reduction
HIV risk behaviors among female IDUs in developing and transitional countries
Gender differences in risk depend on the relational contexts in which risk behaviors occur. The fact that female and male risk behavior often occurs in different relational contexts suggests that different kinds of prevention interventions which are sensitive to these contexts may be necessary
Harm Reduction—Coming of Age”
Using standardized methods for research on HIV and injecting drug use in developing/transitional countries
Rapid assessment proved invaluable in paving the way for the survey. Central coordination of data collection is crucial. While fully standardized methods may be a research ideal, local circumstances may require substantial adaptation of the methods to achieve meaningful local representation. Allowance for understanding of local context may increase rather than decrease the generalizability of the data
Science, action and the International Journal of Drug Policy
Rapid Assessment and Response Studies of Injection Drug Use
Objectives. We evaluated the World Health Organization’s rapid assessment and response (RAR) method of assessing injection drug use and its associated health problems, focusing on knowledge gain, capacity building, and whether RAR leads to the development of interventions reducing the health effects of injection drug use. Methods. Data were derived from RAR studies conducted in Beijing, China; Bogotá, Colombia; Greater Rosario, Argentina; Hanoi, …
Methods for assessing HIV and HIV risk among IDUs and for evaluating interventions
Global overview of injecting drug use and HIV infection among injecting drug users
OBJECTIVE: To provide global estimates of the prevalence of injecting drug use (IDU) and HIV prevalence among IDU, in particular to provide estimates for developing and transitional countries. METHODS: Collation and review of existing estimates of IDU prevalence and HIV prevalence from published and unpublished documents for the period 1998-2003. The strength of evidence for the information was assessed based on the source and type of study. RESU…
Heroin Century
Rapid assessment
Conditions for widespread heterosexual spread of HIV in the Russian Federation
Responses to a special issue
Obeying doctor's orders
Going to See the Doctor
Aids and injecting drug use in the United Kingdom, 1987–1993
Rapid Assessment and Response Studies of Injection Drug Use
Objectives. We evaluated the World Health Organization’s rapid assessment and response (RAR) method of assessing injection drug use and its associated health problems, focusing on knowledge gain, capacity building, and whether RAR leads to the development of interventions reducing the health effects of injection drug use. Methods. Data were derived from RAR studies conducted in Beijing, China; Bogotá, Colombia; Greater Rosario, Argentina; Hanoi, …
Viewpoint
This brief note argues against the tendency in sociological fieldwork to limit observation and explanation to one medium of communication - speech. Against such ethnographic reductionism, it pleads for a reincorporation of a sense of place and space in fieldwork, and for attention to the multiple ways in which messages are communicated
What is the relationship between drug taking and sexual risk? Social relations and social research
This paper examines the dynamics of the relationship between drug taking, sexual activity and sexual risk. While epidemiological research has provided essential indicators of levels of drug taking and sexual risk behaviour, the determinants of the relationship between drug-taking and sexual risk remain unclear. A review of recent epidemiological research indicates two main contentions. First, that the use of certain drugs increases (or decreases)…
Recent developments in professional control
Many sociological commentators have noted the reluctance of the professions to engage in active self-regulation. However, in the last ten years in the USA a new form of professional control has emerged that encourages active intervention. This focusses on the issue of the 'impaired physician' and is concerned with physician ill-health and its effects on medical practice, and is manifested in medical programmes for the identification, treatment an…
General Practitioners, 'Trouble' and Types of Patients
Professional ideologies and the development of syringe exchange
This paper is derived from an evaluative study of HIV prevention programs for drug injectors across Wales. It considers how different professional territories and ideologies, concepts of drug misuse and models of HIV prevention may influence policy development. The research involved monitoring the introduction and development of agency and community based syringe exchange schemes and initiatives taken by community pharmacists. Interviews with sta…
Social care and the role of the general practitioner
Obeying doctor's orders
General Practitioners, 'Trouble' and Types of Patients
The Message of Psychotropic Drug Ads
Heroin and Behavior
“I favor … the pursuit of social solutions to social problems.”
Journal Article “I favor ... the pursuit of social solutions to social problems.” Get access Gerry V. Stimson, Ph. D. Gerry V. Stimson, Ph. D. 1University of London, Psychiatry Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 26, Issue 2, June 1976, Pages 222–223, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1976.tb01402.x Published: 07 February 2006
Going to See the Doctor
Going to See the Doctor
Social care and the role of the general practitioner
Medicine, superstructure and micropolitics—A response
Rockefeller Medicine Men
The Doctor-Patient Relationship in General Practice (Book)
Consumerism in Medicine
Recent developments in professional control
Many sociological commentators have noted the reluctance of the professions to engage in active self-regulation. However, in the last ten years in the USA a new form of professional control has emerged that encourages active intervention. This focusses on the issue of the 'impaired physician' and is concerned with physician ill-health and its effects on medical practice, and is manifested in medical programmes for the identification, treatment an…
Viewpoint
This brief note argues against the tendency in sociological fieldwork to limit observation and explanation to one medium of communication - speech. Against such ethnographic reductionism, it pleads for a reincorporation of a sense of place and space in fieldwork, and for attention to the multiple ways in which messages are communicated
Social Controls and the Medical Profession (Book)
Sexual behaviour of injecting drug users and associated risks of HIV infection for Non-injecting sexual partners
The sexual behaviour of 142 clients of syringe-exchange schemes was measured using a questionnaire interview based survey method. Two to four months later the questionnaire was repeated to provide measures of behavioural change. The majority of these clients were sexually active, 77% having one or more sexual partners in the 3 months prior to the first interview. Many of these clients (46% of those sexually active) had sexual partners who did not…
Books Reviews
Journal Article BOOKS REVIEWS Get access THE NEW HEROIN USERS. By GEOFFREY PEARSON. [Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1987. 194 pp. £17.50 and £6.96 pb.] Gerry Stimson Gerry Stimson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 29, Issue 2, Spring 1989, Pages 203–205, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047829 Published: 01 March 1989
Drug Injecting and Syringe Sharing in Custody and in the Community
In an exploratory study of HIV risk behaviour and custodial experiences, 183 injecting drug users were interviewed in twelve cities in England, Scotland and Wales. Custodial experience was common (79% in custody at some time), recent (58% in custody since 1987), and sentences were short (for 64% the most recent period of custody lasted one month or less). Injecting during last period in custody was reported by 23%, and 75% of those who injected i…
HIV prevalence and HIV risk behaviour among injecting drug users in London and Glasgow
This paper reports on the British findings from a cross-national study of HIV prevalence and HIV risk behaviour among 1,037 injecting drug users (IDUs) recruited from a variety of treatment- and community-based settings during 1990. Confirmed HIV saliva test results show 12.8% (63) of London respondents and 1.8% (8) of Glasgow respondents to be HIV antibody positive. Among London respondents, a higher rate of prevalence was found in those with no…
HIV prevalence no higher among female drug injectors also involved in prostitution
To assess the prevalence of HIV infection among female drug injectors involved in prostitution and female drug injectors not involved in prostitution, survey-based interviews were undertaken with 308 female drug injectors in 1990 and 1991. Confirmed saliva test results show 12.9% HIV prevalence among female drug injectors involved in prostitution and 14.4% HIV prevalence among drug injectors not involved in prostitution. This gives an HIV prevale…
What is the relationship between drug taking and sexual risk? Social relations and social research
This paper examines the dynamics of the relationship between drug taking, sexual activity and sexual risk. While epidemiological research has provided essential indicators of levels of drug taking and sexual risk behaviour, the determinants of the relationship between drug-taking and sexual risk remain unclear. A review of recent epidemiological research indicates two main contentions. First, that the use of certain drugs increases (or decreases)…
Aids and injecting drug use in the United Kingdom, 1987–1993
Professional ideologies and the development of syringe exchange
This paper is derived from an evaluative study of HIV prevention programs for drug injectors across Wales. It considers how different professional territories and ideologies, concepts of drug misuse and models of HIV prevention may influence policy development. The research involved monitoring the introduction and development of agency and community based syringe exchange schemes and initiatives taken by community pharmacists. Interviews with sta…
'Unsafe protected sex'
To describe forms of unsafe protected sex (vaginal or anal intercourse where condoms are used unsafely) among a sample of drug users in London, data are drawn from a qualitative study of the sexual and drug taking lifestyles of opioid and stimulant users. Depth one-to-one interviews (n = 96) elicited detailed descriptions from interviewees of their sexual behaviour, including the last occasions they had protected and unprotected sex. Analysis of …
Harm reduction in action
Medicine (39 works) · Psychology (32 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (25 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Political science (22 works) · Public health (21 works) · Psychiatry (20 works) · Family medicine (14 works) · Nursing (14 works) · Computer Science (13 works)