The endangered self : managing the social risks of HIV / Gill Green and Elisa J. Sobo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Gill.

Contributor:

Sobo, Elisa Janine, 1963-

Series:

Health, risk and society.

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:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 its effects on the individual's social relationships. In this comparative study of the UK and US, Green and Sobo explore identity change and the stigma attached to an HIV positive status within t

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Identity, social risk, and AIDS: what's the connection?; Dangerous identities: stigmas and stories; The landscape of risk: danger, identity, and HIV; Settings and methods; Living with HIV: coping with a new status; Telling; The danger of disclosure; Reported reactions in health care settings; Disclosure in sexual settings: identifying the issues; Reported reactions in sexual settings: our findings; Risk and reality: the social situation; Seropositivity, identity, and social risk; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-35792-7

1-135-35793-5

1-280-32856-8

0-203-13552-0

0-203-17022-9

9786610328567

9780203135525

OCLC:

48138984