Life with AIDS / Rose Weitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weitz, Rose, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Psychological aspects.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 225 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [1991].

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Rose Weitz presents a holistic picture of the experiences of people with HIV disease, using their own words and focusing on the issues that they consider important. Her information comes from in-depth interviews with women and men who have HIV disease--from those who are asymptomatic but infected to those who have full-blown AIDS--and from interviews with doctors who treat persons with HIV disease. Weitz describes how these people are affected by and respond to the changes in their bodies and their social relationships, from the time when they realize that they are at risk of infection to the time when death approaches. It covers such issues as how individuals obtain diagnoses, develop their initial ideas about what the future will bring, and come to terms with their impending deaths. To put this into a broader context, she also explores the moral status of illness in general and looks at why some illnesses, including HIV disease, have become especially stigmatized. The author also explores how doctors are affected by and cope with the unique pressures of treating persons with HIV disease. The concluding chapter theorizes about how changes in the social construction, demographic distribution, and treatment of HIV disease are changing the lives of people with AIDS.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

CHAPTER 2 The Social Construction of HIV Disease

CHAPTER 3 HIV Disease and the Moral Status of Illness

CHAPTER 4 Becoming a Person with HIV Disease

CHAPTER 5 HIV Disease and the Body

CHAPTER 6 HIV Disease and Social Relationships

CHAPTER 7 Making a Life with HIV Disease

CHAPTER 8 The Doctors' Perspectives

CHAPTER 9 The Future of HIV

APPENDIX 1 Personal Reflections on Researching HIV Disease

APPENDIX 2 Methodology

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-218) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)

ISBN:

0-8135-8562-7

0-585-02927-X

9780585029276