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Record Nr.

UNINA9910172253703321

Autore

Green Gill

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-135-35792-7

1-135-35793-5

1-280-32856-8

0-203-13552-0

0-203-17022-9

9786610328567

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

Health, risk and society

Altri autori (Persone)

SoboElisa Janine <1963->

Disciplina

362.1969792

Soggetti

HIV (Viruses) - Social aspects

AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects

HIV-positive persons - Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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