246 Pages
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Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
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Routledge
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To date, the majority of HIV/AIDS research has concentrated on education and prevention for those with a seronegative status, while studies of HIV positive individuals have been concerned with their potential to infect others. The Endangered Self however, focuses on how the discovery of an HIV positive status affects the individual's sense of identity, on the experience of living with HIV and... Read more
Preface Graham Hart Acknowledgements List of Tables About the Authors 1. Identity, social risk, and AIDS: what's the connection? 2. Dangerous identities: stigmas and stories 3. The landscape of risk: danger, identity and HIV 4. Settings and Methods 5. Living with HIV: coping with a new status 6. Telling 7. The danger of disclosure 8. Reported reactions in health care settings 9. Disclosure in sexual settings: identifying the issues 10. Reported reactions in sexual settings: our findings 11. Risk and Reality: the social situation 12. Seropositivity, identity, and social risk Bibliography Index
Biography
Gill Green is a Senior Lecturer at the Health and Social Services Institute, University of Essex. Elisa J. Sobo is Clinic Director and Associate Investigator, National Study of Nutrition an d Health, University of California, San Diego.
'The Endangered Self marks a significant addition to our understanding of the risk attached to HIV. ... The careful and rigorous treatment of risk set out by the authors should help both researchers and practitioners make better sense of the world with which they are presented.' - Aids Care
