This article presents an introduction to the Health Belief Model (HBM). The HBM states that the perception of a personal health behavior threat is influenced by at least three factors: general health values, interest and concern about health; specific beliefs about vulnerability to a particular health threat; and beliefs about the consequences of the health problem. Once an individual perceives a threat to his health and is simultaneously cued to action, if his perceived benefits outweighs his perceived costs, then the individual is most likely to undertake the recommended preventive health action. Key words: health promotion, health belief model, perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, cues to action, self-efficacy. Content available only in Romanian.

Health Belief Model

Although the chapters that appear in this book have been previously published separately in different places at different
times, they have been revised by the author for their publication as a book and are all related to the problem of
historical representation. By putting together essays on Droysen, Foucault, Jameson and Ricoeur, Hayden White hasmanaged to give an encompassing account of a problematic issue that has been one of the major concerns of
historical studies as well as of many other areas of the human sciences: that of the importance of narrative representation in the description or explanation of the “object” of study of
the human sciences. Although the authors mentioned deal with this subject in different ways, White finds in them
common characteristics which confirm the point made by him that historical narratives are, from a semiological
perspective, concerned with the production of meanings.

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The content of the Form: narrative discourse and historical representation

Preface 1. Sexuality and the historian 2. 'That damned morality': sex in Victorian ideology 3. The sacramental family: middle-class men, women and children 4. Sexuality and the labouring classes 5. The public and the private: moral regulation in the Victorian period 6. The construction of homosexuality 7. The population question in the early twentieth century 8. The theorisation of sex 9. Feminism and socialism 10. Sex psychology and birth control 11. Towards a conservative modernity 12. The state and sexuality 13. The permissive moment 14. Personal politics and moral conservatism 15. A new world? Index

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Sex, Politics and Society. The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800

Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707–1837

Racism in. Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil. France Winddance Twine. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. xiii. 175pp. (Cloth US$49.00, Paper US$17.00)

Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil.

This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s lives.

Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838

This article analyses the pro-slavery debate about Jamaican slave women's sexuality in the period 1770–1834. The first part shows that two images of slave women dominated this debate and argues that these served primarily to displace fears about the viability of the plantation system. The second part explores the link between the two images and the practice of interracial sex, amongst others, by comparing Jamaican attitudes towards interracial sex with on the North American mainland. The conclusion links the analysis to the existing scholarship on pro-slavery discourse and describes some long-term effects of the two images of slave women's sexuality.

Deviant and dangerous: Pro-slavery representations of Jamaican slave women's sexuality, c. 1780–1834

Slavery by another name

This article examines 125 court cases of infanticide and concealment of birth that were reported in a Jamaican newspaper between 1865 and 1938 and were mainly committed by lower-class women. Informed by recent medical, psychological and legal studies on child murder, it demonstrates that historians can gain a more complete understanding of child murder in the modern period if they pay attention not only to poverty and a stigma attached to illegitimacy but also to societal norms of mothering and psycho-social stress factors. And more particularly, it will show that in spite of attempts to bring them in line with the metropolitan ideal of a family of husband/breadwinner, wife/homemaker and legitimate children, most lower-class African Jamaicans continued to hold on to their own norms of family, sexuality and gender, which had been carried over from Africa and reinforced by plantation practices during slavery.

“I Did Not Want to Face the Shame of Exposure”: Gender Ideologies and Child Murder in Post-Emancipation Jamaica

The system of production in Jamaican slave society depended upon the successful subjugation of the slave body This was largely achieved through the use or threat of violent punishment, especially flogging Of all the indecencies linked with slavery, abolitionists were most enraged about the violence done to the slave’s body The lacerated slave body in abolitionist discourse was first and foremost a female body since they regarded physical violence against women as a particularly insidious crime against humanity 1

Henrice Altink

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Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838

Deviant and dangerous: Pro-slavery representations of Jamaican slave women's sexuality, c. 1780–1834

Slavery by another name

“I Did Not Want to Face the Shame of Exposure”: Gender Ideologies and Child Murder in Post-Emancipation Jamaica

'An Outrage on All Decency': Abolitionist Reactions to Flogging Jamaican Slave Women, 1780-1834