Holding on : African American women surviving HIV/AIDS / Alyson O'Daniel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Daniel, Alyson, author.

Series:

Anthropology of Contemporary North America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Treatment--United States.

AIDS (Disease).

African American women--Medical care.

African American women.

Minority women--Medical care--United States.

Minority women.

Minorities--Medical care--United States.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; London, [England] : University of Nebraska Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Holding On anthropologist Alyson O'Daniel analyzes the abstract debates about health policy for the sickest and most vulnerable Americans as well as the services designated to help them by taking readers into the daily lives of poor African American women living with HIV at the advent of the 2006 Treatment Modernization Act. At a time when social support resources were in decline and publicly funded HIV/AIDS care programs were being re-prioritized, women's daily struggles with chronic poverty, drug addiction, mental health, and neighborhood violence influenced women's lives in sometimes unexpected ways. An ethnographic portrait of HIV-positive black women and their interaction with the U.S. healthcare system, Holding On reveals how gradients of poverty and social difference shape women's health care outcomes and, by extension, women's experience of health policy reform. Set among the realities of poverty, addiction, incarceration, and mental illness, the case studies in Holding On illustrate how subtle details of daily life affect health and how overlooking them when formulating public health policy has fostered social inequality anew and undermined health in a variety of ways.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Introduction: Hidden in Plain Sight; 1. "Other" Stories of Social Policy and hiv Survival; 2. The Local Landscape of HIV/AIDS Care; 3. Urban Poverty Three Ways; 4. The Pedagogy of Policy Reform; 5. Using "Survival" to Survive, Part I; 6. Using "Survival" to Survive, Part II; Conclusion: Life beyond Survival; Appendix 1: Demographic Characteristics of Study Participants at Time of First Interview; Appendix 2: Study Participants' Analytic Categories; Appendix 3: Glossary of Service Program Acronyms

NotesReferences; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803288423

0803288425

9780803288409

0803288409

OCLC:

933766075