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You're the first one I've told : the faces of HIV in the Deep South / Kathryn Whetten, Brian Wells Pence.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whetten, Kathryn, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease)--Southern States.
- AIDS (Disease).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Other Title:
- You are the first one I have told
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Deep South has seen a 36 percent increase in AIDS cases while the rest of the nation has seen a 2 percent decline. Many of the underlying reasons for the disease's continued spread in the region-ignorance about HIV, reluctance to get tested, non-adherence to treatment protocols, resistance to behavioral changes-remain unaddressed by policymakers. In this extensively revised second edition, Kathryn Whetten and Brian Wells Pence present a rich discussion of twenty-five ethnographic life stories of people living with HIV in the South. Most importantly, they incorporate research from their recent quantitative study, "Coping with HIV/AIDS in the Southeast" (CHASE), which includes 611 HIV-positive patients from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana. This new edition continues to bring the participants' voices to life while highlighting how the CHASE study confirmed many of the themes that originally emerged from the life histories. This is the first cohesive compilation of up-to-date evidence on the unique and difficult aspects of living with HIV in the Deep South.
- Contents:
- Setting the stage
- Voices of the past
- Enter HIV
- Abuse, trauma, and HIV
- Distrust, conspiracy and confidentiality and provider relationships
- Benefit systems
- The importance of children
- Sex, love, family and other support
- Theoretical framework
- The future.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-247) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-8135-5454-3
- OCLC:
- 867739814
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