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Publications - Dr Mark David McGregor Davis

Publications
Chapters
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Book chapters
Reviews
Invited presentations and symposia
Selected conference presentations, since 2000

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Publications

Books and monographs

  1. Davis, M. and Squire, C. eds  (2010) HIV treatment and prevention technologies in international perspective, Palgrave Macmillan. 224 pages.
  2. Petersen, A., Davis, M., Fraser, S. and Lindsay, J. (2010) 'Healthy living and citizenship', Special issue of Critical Public Health, 20(4).
  3. Davis, M. (2009) Sex, technology and public health, Palgrave Macmillan. 198 pages.

 

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Chapters

  1. Davis, M (2010) 'Surveys, citizenship and the sexual lifecourse' in Burnett, J (ed.) Contemporary adulthood: calendars, cartographies and constructions, Palgrave Macmillan, 104-119.
  2. Davis, M. and Squire, C. (2010) 'HIV technologies', in Davis, M. and Squire, C. (eds) HIV treatment and prevention technologies in international perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, 1-17.
  3. Davis, M. (2010) 'Antiretroviral treatment and HIV prevention: Perspectives from qualitative research with gay men with HIV in the UK', in Davis, M. and Squire, C. (eds) HIV treatment and prevention technologies in international perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, pages 126-143.
  4. Davis, M. and Squire, C. (2010) 'Particularity, Potentiation, Citizenship and Pragmatism', in Davis, M. and Squire, C. (eds) HIV treatment and prevention technologies in international perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, pages 184-202.
  5. Davis, M. (2009) 'Spectacular risk, public health and the technological mediation of the sexual practices of gay men', in Broom, A. and Tovey, P. (eds.) Men's Health: Body, Identity and Social Context, Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, pages 107-125.
  6. Davis, M. & Flowers, P. (2008) 'Unmasking biotechnology: perspectives from the 'Transitions in HIV' project', in Senker, Burnett, Walker (eds) The Myths of Technology: Innovation and Inequality, Peter Lang Publishing, 145-157.
  7. Ward, K., Davis, M. and Flowers, P.  (2006) 'Patient expertise and Innovative Health Technologies', in A. Webster ed. Innovative Health Technologies, Health Technology and Society Series, Palgrave Macmillan, pages 97-111.
  8. Connell, R. W., Davis, M. & Dowsett, G. (2000) 'Man to man: homosexual desire and practice among working-class men', in R W Connell, The men and the boys, Polity: Cambridge, pages 102-128.
  9. Dowsett, G., Davis, M. & Connell, R. W (1992) 'Gay lifestyles of the not-so-rich and famous', in Garry Wotherspoon and Robert Aldrich (eds) Gay Perspectives: Essays in Australian Gay Culture. Sydney: University of Sydney, Department of Economic History, pages 147-163.
  10. Dowsett, G., Davis, M. & Connell, R. W. (1992) 'Gay men, HIV/AIDS and social research', in Peter Aggleton, Peter Davies and Graham Hart, (eds.) AIDS: Rights, Risks and Reasons, London: Falmer Press, pages 1-12.

 

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Articles in peer-reviewed journals

  1. Davis, M. (2011) ‘You have to come into the world’: transition, emotion and being in narratives of life with the internet, Somatechnics, 1(2): 253-271. DOI 10.3366/soma.2011.0019
  2. Davis, M. and Flowers, P. (2011) Love and HIV serodiscordance in gay men’s accounts of life with their regular partners, Culture, Health and Sexuality, 13(7): 737-749. DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2011.552986. First published online 17 February 2011.
  3. Davis, M, Stephenson, N. and Flowers, P. (2011) Compliant, complacent or panicked? Investigating the problematisation of the Australian general public in pandemic influenza control, Social Science &Medicine, 72(6): 912-918. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.01.016. First published online 5 February 2011.
  4. Flowers, M., Davis, M., Larkin, M., Church, S. and Marriott, C. (2011) Understanding the impact of HIV diagnosis amongst gay men in Scotland: an interpretative phenomenological analysis, Psychology and Health. DOI:10.1080/08870446.2010.551213. First published online January 2011.
  5. Davis, M. (2010) Advancing biosocial pedagogy for HIV education, Health Education Research, 26(3): 556-562. DOI: 10.1093/her/cyq047First published online September 16 2010.
  6. Petersen, A., Davis, M., Fraser, S. and Lindsay, J. (2010) Healthy living and citizenship: an overview, Critical Public Health, 20 (4), 391-400.
  7. Davis, M. (2008) The ‘loss of community’ and other problems for sexual citizenship in recent HIV prevention, Sociology of Health and Illness, 30(2), 182-196.
  8. Davis, M (2007) Identity, expertise and HIV risk in a case study of reflexivity and medical technologies, Sociology, 41(6), 1003-1019.
  9. Bolding G, Davis M., Hart G, Sherr L, Elford J (2007) Where young MSM meet their first sexual partner: the role of the Internet, AIDS and Behavior, 11(4), 522-526.
  10. Elford J, Bolding G, Davis M, Sherr L, Hart G (2007) Barebacking among HIV-positive gay men in London, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 34 (2), 93-98.
  11. Davis, M., Frankis, J. Flowers, P. (2006) Uncertainty and technological horizon in qualitative interviews about HIV treatment, health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 10(3), 323-344.
  12. Davis, M., Hart, G., Bolding, G., Sherr, L. and Elford, J. (2006) E-dating and HIV prevention: theorising sexual interaction, risk and network society, Sociology of Health and Illness, 28 (4), 457-478.
  13. Davis, M., Hart, G., Bolding, G., Sherr, L. and Elford, J. (2006) Sex and the Internet: gay men, risk reduction and serostatus, Culture, Health and Sexuality, 8 (2), 161-174.
  14. Bolding, G., Davis, M., Hart, G., Sherr, L. Elford, J. (2006) Heterosexual men and women who seek sex through the Internet. International Journal of STD and AIDS, 17 (8), 530-534.
  15. Flowers, P., Davis, M., Hart, G., Imrie, J., Rosengarten, R., &Frankis, J. (2006) Diagnosis and identity amongst HIV positive Black Africans living in the UK, Psychology and Health, 21 (1), 109-122.
  16. Bolding, G., Davis, M., Hart, G., Sherr, L. &Elford, J. (2005) Gay men who look for sex on the Internet: is there more HIV/STI risk with online partners?, AIDS, 19, 961-968.
  17. Davis, M., Bolding, G., Hart, G., Sherr, L. and Elford, J. (2004) Reflecting on the experience of interviewing online: perspectives from the Internet and HIV study in London, AIDS Care, 16, 8, 944-952.
  18. Davis, M., Bolding, G., Hart, G., Sherr, L. and Elford, J. (2004) Reflecting on the experience of interviewing online: perspectives from the Internet and HIV study in London, AIDS Care, 16, 8, 944-952.
  19. Davis, M. and Rhodes. T. (2004) Managing seen and unseen blood associated with drug injecting: implications for theorising harm reduction for viral risk, Special Issue on Social Theory, International Journal of Drug Policy, 15, 377-384.
  20. Davis, M. &Rhodes, T. (2004) Beyond prevention?: injecting drug user narratives about hepatitis C. International Journal of Drug Policy, 15 (2), 123-131.
  21. Davis, M., Rhodes, T. and Martin, A. (2004) Preventing hepatitis C: ‘Common sense’, ‘the bug’ and other perspectives from the risk narratives of people who inject drugs, Social Science and Medicine, 59, 1807-1818.
  22. Bolding, G., Davis, M., Sherr, L., Hart, G. and Elford, J. (2004) Use of gay Internet sites and views about online health promotion among men who have sex with men, AIDS Care, 16, 8, 993-1001.
  23. Elford, J., Bolding, G., Davis, M., Sherr, L. and Hart, G. (2004) The Internet and HIV study: design and methods.., BMC Public Health, 4, 39.
  24. Elford, J., Bolding, G., Davis, M., Sherr, L. and Hart, G. (2004) Trends in sexual behaviour among London homosexual men 1998-2003: implications for HIV prevention and sexual health promotion, Sexually Transmitted Infections, 80, 451-454.
  25. Elford, J., Bolding, G., Davis, M., Sherr, L. &Hart, G. (2004) Web-based behavioural surveillance among men who have sex with men: a comparison of online and offline samples in London, UK, Journal of AIDS, 35 (4), 421-426.
  26. Rhodes, T., Davis, M., &Judd, A. (2004) Hepatitis C risk and its risk management among drug injectors in London: renewing harm reduction in the context of uncertainty, Addiction, 99, 621-633.
  27. Rosengarten, M., Imrie, J., Flowers, P., Davis, M. &Hart, G. (2004) After the euphoria: HIV medical technologies from the perspective of their prescribers, Sociology of Health and Illness, 26 (5), 575-596.
  28. Davis, M. (2003) IJDP commentary: Qualitative research and harm reduction, International Journal of Drug Policy, 14, 119-122.
  29. Stephenson, J., Imrie, J., Davis, M., Mercer, C., Black, S., Copas, A., Hart, G., Davidson, O. &Williams, I. (2003) Is the use of antiretroviral therapy among gay men associated with increased risk of transmission of HIV infection?, Sexually Transmitted Infections, 79, 1, 7-10.
  30. Davis, M. (2002) HIV prevention rationalities and serostatus in the risk narratives of gay men, Sexualities, 5(3), 281-299.
  31. Davis, M., Hart, G., Imrie, J., Davidson, O., Williams, I. &Stephenson, J. (2002) “HIV is HIV to me": the meanings of treatment, viral load and reinfection for gay men living with HIV, Health, Risk and Society, 4(1), 31-43.
  32. Connell, R. W. Davis, M. & Dowsett, G. (1993) A bastard of a life: homosexual desire and practice among men in working-class milieux, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 29(1), 211-35.
  33. Kippax, S., Crawford, J., Davis, M., Rodden, P. &Dowsett, G. (1993) Sustaining safe sex: a longitudinal study of a sample of homosexual men, AIDS, 7(23), 257-63.
  34. Dowsett, G., Davis, M. &Connell, R. W. (1992) Working-class homosexuality and HIV/AIDS prevention: some recent research from Sydney, Australia, Psychology and Health, 6, 313-24.
  35. Connell, R. W., Dowsett, G., Rodden, P. Davis, M., Watson, L. &Baxter, D. (1991) Social class, gay men and AIDS prevention, Australian Journal of Public Health, 15(3), 178-189.
  36. Davis, M., Ray, J., &Burt, J. (1987) Sex roles and fear of success: a general population study, Personality and Individual Differences, 8(3), 431-2.

 

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Government reports and research translation

  1. Davis, M. (2006) Reflecting on recent social research about HIV prevention, sexual health and people with HIV, Terrence Higgins Trust, London.
  2. Judd, A., Hickman, M., Rhodes, T., Jones, S., Parry, J., Davis, M., Stimson, G. (2003) A cohort study to assess the prevalence and incidence of, and risk factors for, hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among new injecting drug users (IDUs), Final Report to Department of Health, The Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, Imperial College, London.
  3. Rhodes, T., Platt, L., Filatova, K., Sarang, A., Davis, M. and Renton, A. (2002) Behaviour Factors in HIV Transmission in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Geneva: UNAIDS.
  4. Summerside, J. & Davis, M. (2002) Keeping it to ourselves: strategic directions in the development of HIV prevention for people with HIV, Terrence Higgins Trust: London.
  5. Summerside, J. & Davis, M. (2001) HIV prevention and sexual health promotion with people with HIV, NHPIS Professional Briefing and Resource Guide No.4. Health Development Agency: London.
  6. Dowsett, G. & Davis, M. (1998) HIV/AIDS and collaborative social research: a discussion paper, Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations, Sydney, Australia.
  7. Chun B., Chin S. & Davis, M. (1997) Young People, HIV/AIDS/STDs and sexual health project. Participatory action research in a rural village, provincial town and urban squatter community in Cambodia, Save the Children Fund (UK) Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
  8. Ly, S., O'Brien, C., Davis, M. (1997) Young people, HIV/AIDS, STDs and sexual health project.  Survey of knowledge, attitudes and practices, Save the Children Fund (UK) Cambodia, Phnom Penh, February 1997.
  9. Davis, M. (1996) Putting it all into practice: forging links between HIV social research and AIDS education, National AIDS Bulletin, 10(1), 34-37.
  10. Davis, M ed. (1996) Proceedings of the 1995 NSW HIV/AIDS Health Promotion Conference, Sydney, 8-10 November, AIDS/Infectious Disease Branch, NSW Health.
  11. Davis, M. (1996) Development of links between social research and HIV/AIDS health promotion practice, Out There Too: Social research and practice forum, March 14 &15, Adelaide. 
  12. Davis, M ed. (1996) Core Questions: Guidelines for survey design for needs assessment and evaluation - gay and bisexually active men, AIDS/Infectious Diseases Branch, NSW Health.
  13. Davis, M, Dowsett, G., Connell, R., Ariss, R., Carrigan, T. & Chapple, M. (1993) Class, homosexuality and AIDS Prevention. Resource material for use in HIV/AIDS prevention., Sydney, Macquarie University, National Centre for HIV Social Research.
  14. Dowsett, G. & Davis, M. (1992) Transgression and intervention: homosexually active men and beats. A Review of an Australian HIV/AIDS Outreach Prevention Strategy, A working paper prepared for the "Meeting on Effective Approaches to AIDS Prevention" Office of Intervention Development and Support Global Programme on AIDS, World Health Organisation, Geneva, 26-29 May 1992
  15. Sharp, R., Davis, M., Dowsett, G., Kippax, S., Hewitt, K., Morgan, S. & Robertson, W. (1991) Ways of using: functional injecting drug users, Centre for Applied Social Research, Macquarie University, School of Behavioural Sciences, Sydney.
  16. Davis, M., Klemmer, U. & Dowsett, G. (1991) Bisexually active men and beats: theoretical and educational implications, The Bisexually Active Men's Outreach Project. AIDS Council of New South Wales and Macquarie University AIDS Research Unit.

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Reviews

  1. Davis, M. (2011) 'Biomedicalization: technoscience, health, and illness in the US, Clarke, A., Mamo, L., Fosket, J., Fishman, J.  and Shim, J. (eds)', Culture, Health & Sexuality, 13(4), 493-495. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2011.552766
  2. – (2008) 'Barebacking: Psychosocial and Public Health Approaches, Halkitis, P., Wilton, L. & Drescher, J., Binghamton: Haworth Medical Press', International Journal of Men's Health, 7 (1), 100-101.
  3. – (2006) 'www.livingstories.org.uk: experiences of people living with haemophilia and HIV'. Oral History, 34 (2), 112-113.
  4. – (2004) 'The Harvey Milk Institute guide to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer internet research', Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review, 5(3), 134.
  5. – (2001) 'Mortal Men: living with asymptomatic HIV. R. Macintyre, Rutgers: New Brunswick, 1999', AIDS Care, 13(2), 257-260.
  6. – (2000) 'Identity and Sexuality: AIDS in Britain in the 1990s. Philip Gatter London: Cassell, 1999', Culture, Health and Sexuality, 2(2), 229-231.
  7. – (1999) 'Impure Science: AIDS, activism and the politics of knowledge, S. Epstein, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996', AIDS Care, 11(5), 603 - 604.

 

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Invited presentations and symposia

  1. Davis, M., Stephenson, N. and Flowers, P. (2011) How can we effectively communicate with the general public on pandemic influenza? Invited oral presentation, Session 2: Risk communication during and after pandemics, International Pandemic Preparedness and Response Conference: Finding the Balance between Vigilance, Warning and Action & Lessons from Disaster Management, Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 18-19 April.
  2. Davis, M. (2010) The narrative life of the internet, Seminar presented at the Centre for Narrative Research, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London, 12 October. 
  3. Davis, M., Hodges, I., and Maddison, S. (2009) Sex, technology and public health, in conversation. The Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London and The Gender Institute, London School of Economics, 6 July.
  4. Davis, M. (2009) Wellbeing pharmacy and the Global Better Sex Survey. Paper presented at the 'Healthy living' Round Table Event, Monash University Prato Centre, 25-26 June.
  5. – (2008) HIV, public health and 'biomediation', The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) Seminar Series, 9 July 2008.
  6. – (2007) Treating and preventing HIV post-ART: perspectives from qualitative interviews with gay men with HIV living in London. Paper presented at the Sociology Colloquium, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, 23 May.
  7. – (2006) Retrieving the self: thematic and whole-interview analysis in research about living with HIV treatment, Seminar, Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London, 3 April.
  8. – (2005) E-dating and HIV prevention. 'Sexuality Symposium', University of East London, Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, 10 June.
  9. – (2004) Hepatitis C: perspectives from qualitative research in London. The Research Colloquia, National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia.
  10. – (2004) 'Online interviewing: perspectives from the Internet and HIV research Project'. University Research Half Day, City University London.
  11. - (2003) CMS 4 sex: gay men's narratives about using computer mediated communication for sexual partnering. Perspectives from the 'Internet & HIV Project',  Sexual Health Research Group Seminar, City University, London.
  12. – (2002) Rethinking 'virtuality': reflections from research into the Internet and HIV. Virtual Methods Seminar: 'Qualitative data collection through online interaction', 27 September 2002, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  13. – (2001) 'Beyond prevention?: perspectives from the 'user epidemiologies' of young injectors about the transmission of hepatitis C'. Academic Seminar for the Centre for Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College, 7 November.

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Selected conference presentations, since 2000

  1. Lorimer, K., Flowers, P., Davis, M. and Cornish, F. (2011) Evidence and deliverance: Rationing, rationalising and reason; a case study using HIV prevention, Poster presentation 20th World Congress for sexual Health, Glasgow, UK, June 12-16th, 2011. Conference abstracts published in Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2011; 8 (suppl 3): 84–299.
  2. Flowers, P. and Davis, M. (2011) Understanding HIV disclosure: Relational ethics, HIV citizenship and public health, Poster presented at 20th World Congress for sexual Health, Glasgow, UK, June 12-16th, 2011 Conference abstracts published in Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2011; 8 (suppl 3): 84–299
  3. Davis, M. (2010) 'You have to come into the world': Transition, emotion, health and (well)being in the everyday life of the internet. Paper presented at Integrative Session, Narratives, citizenship, health, and social change, 15 July 2010. International Sociological Association XVII World Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-17 July.
  4. Davis, M. and Flowers, P. (2010) Constraint, volition and public confidence in pandemic influenza control. Paper presented at Session 8: Epidemics and pandemics, ISA RC15 Sociology of health, International Sociological Association XVII World Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-17 July.
  5. Davis, M. and Squire, C. (2009) HIV technologies of the 'post-ART' era. Paper presented at International Society of Critical Health Psychology, Sixth Biennial Conference 2009 in Lausanne, Switzerland, 8-11 July. 
  6. Davis, M. (2008) Sexual practice, the commercial internet and public health. Paper presented at the TASA Conference, Melbourne, 2-5 December.
  7. – (2007) Spectacular risk, public health and the technological mediation of sexual practice. Paper, TASA & SAANZ Joint Conference, Auckland, 6 December.
  8. – (2007) Treating and preventing HIV post-ART. Paper presented at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference, University of East London, 12 April.
  9. – (2005) Transition, uncertainty and technological horizon in the treatment of HIV. Paper presented at the British Sociological Association, Medical Sociology Group, 37th Annual Conference, University of York, 15-17 September.
  10. – (2005) Treating and preventing HIV in the post-HAART situation: perspectives from qualitative research. Paper presented at The Eighth Annual Community HIV/AIDS Prevention Strategy Conference, Bristol.
  11. Davis, M., Hart, G., Bolding, G., Sherr, L. & Elford, J. (2003) Appraising internet relay chat as a technique for conducting qualitative interviews about HIV risk. Poster: "STD/HIV Prevention on the Internet" Conference, August 25-27, Washington, D.C.
  12. Davis, M., Hart, G., Bolding, G., Sherr, L and Elford, J. (2003) The pleasures and intimacies of queer cyberspace: gay men's accounts of using the internet for sexual partnering, Oral presentation: AIDS Impact Conference, July 2003, Milan.
  13. Davis, M. (2003) Self-surveillance in the context of HIV treatment and prevention. Poster: 'Vital Politics: Health, Medicine and Bioeconomics into the Twenty First Century', LSE
  14. Davis, M and Rhodes, T. (2002) Doing safer injection and preventing hepatitis C: 'Common sense' and other perspectives from qualitative research. Plenary: Ethnography and drugs research: 13th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm, Slovenia, March.
  15. Davis M, Rhodes T, Cusick L, Imrie J. (2002) HIV tests, uncertainty & self-management, Poster: 14th International AIDS Conference AIDS, Barcelona, Spain, 7 – 12 July 2002.
  16. Davis, M., Hart, G., Imrie, J., Davidson, O., Williams, I., Stephenson, J. (2001) 'HIV treatments and the meanings of viral load and reinfection among gay men with HIV'. Paper: International, AIDS Impact Conference, 8-11, July, Brighton.
  17. Davis, M. & Rhodes, T. (2001) Sex and substance use: the relevance of social pharmacology to HIV prevention research and best practice’, Poster: International, AIDS Impact Conference, 8-11 July, Brighton
  18. Davis, M., Hart, G., Imrie, J., Davidson, O., Williams, I., Stephenson, J. (2001) Treatments, viral load and gay men with HIV. Paper: Fourth National Community HIV/AIDS Prevention Strategy Conference, 12-13 February, London.
  19. Davis, M., M., Hart, G., Imrie, J., Davidson, O., Williams, I., Stephenson, J. (2000) 'Living with HIV treatments and adherence: interim qualitative findings from a study of gay men with HIV and AIDS in London’. Paper: The British Psychological Society, Annual Conference, Winchester,13-16 April.
  20. Davis, M. (2000) Overview of research.  Paper: Terrence Higgins Trust National Practitioner Seminar: Strategic directions in primary prevention with people with HIV, November.
  21. Davis, M., Hart, G., Imrie, J., Davidson, O., Williams, I., Stephenson, J. (2000) Interim findings of the SHARP project, Paper: Third National Community HIV/AIDS Prevention Strategy Conference, March, Manchester.

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