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The endangered self : managing the social risks of HIV / Gill Green and Elisa J. Sobo.
Van Pelt Library RA644.A25 G74 2000
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green, Gill, 1956-
- Series:
- Health, risk and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- HIV (Viruses)--Social aspects.
- HIV (Viruses).
- AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.
- AIDS (Disease).
- HIV-positive persons--Psychology.
- HIV-positive persons.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 234 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Contents:
- 1 Identity, social risk, and AIDS: what's the connection? 1
- 2 Dangerous identities: stigmas and stories 10
- 3 The landscape of risk: danger, identity, and HIV 31
- 4 Settings and methods 45
- 5 Living with HIV: coping with a new status 60
- 6 Telling 84
- 7 The danger of disclosure 103
- 8 Reported reactions in health care settings 120
- 9 Disclosure in sexual settings: identifying the issues 135
- 10 Reported reactions in sexual settings: our findings 143
- 11 Risk and reality: the social situation 171
- 12 Seropositivity, identity, and social risk 192.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1857289099
- 1857289102
- OCLC:
- 42953363
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