Living with HIV and dying with AIDS [[electronic resource] ] : diversity, inequality and human rights in the global pandemic / / Lesley Doyal with Len Doyal

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779408903321
• Autore: Doyal Lesley
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Farnham, Surrey, England, : Ashgate, 2013
• ISBN: 1-315-59281-9; 1-317-10390-4; 1-317-10389-0; 1-4724-0014-3; 1-299-40722-6; 1-4094-3112-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Collana: Global health
• Altri autori (Persone): DoyalLen
• Disciplina: 362.19697/92
• Soggetti: AIDS (Disease) - Political aspects; AIDS (Disease) - Government policy; HIV infections - Political aspects; HIV infections - Government policy; HIV Infections; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Health Policy; Politics; Human Rights; Comparative Study
• 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: Cover; Contents; Introduction and Acknowledgements; 1 Posing the Problems; Where Are We Now in the Pandemic?; Understanding the Biological Foundations; Taking a Historical View: Comparisons with the Black Death; Bringing in the Social Sciences: Adding Value; Inequality and Disadvantage: A Conceptual Framework; Poverty and 'Structural Violence' in the Pandemic; Outline of the Book; 2 Mapping the Pandemic; Differences between Epidemics and their Populations; ; Diversity within Positive Populations: Developing an Eco-Social Approach; Sex and Gender: Nature or Nurture?; 'Race' and Ethnicity: Biological or Social?Sexuality and Sexual Identity: Making the Connections; A Brief Note about Ageing; Putting the Pieces Together: Introducing Intersectionality; Conclusion; 3 A Biographical Overview; Mind and Body: Symptoms and Constraints; Making Sense of Long-Term Illness: Changing Identities; Deconstructing Stigma; Diagnosis, Disruption and Disclosure; Moving on from the Diagnosis; Positive Activism; The Shadow of Death; Conclusion; 4 Depending on Health Care for Survival; Who Gets Access to ART?; Beginning the Journey: Who Tests?; ART: Patterns of Acceptance and RetentionConstraints on Successful Treatment; Making Sense of Medicines and their Effects; Managing Hope and Insecurity; 'Therapeutic and Bio-Political Citizenship': Tensions and Contradictions; Conclusion; 5 Challenging Livelihoods; Working in 'Welfare' States; Working in the Global South; Measuring the Impact on Livelihoods: The Broader Context; Sustaining Social Reproduction: Gender Divisions and Intergenerational Bargains; Coping or Not?; Conclusion; 6 Changing Sexual Lives; Broader Perspectives on Sex; Constraints of Poor Mental and Physical Health on Sexual ActivityLoss of Sexual Feelings after Diagnosis?; Routes Back to 'Normality'?; Searching for a New Partner?; Disclosure within Sexual Relationships; Sex as Risk Taking; Health and the Ethics of Sex; Conclusion; 7 Shaping Reproductive Futures; Reproduction: Paths to Pregnancy; Making Reproductive 'Choices'; To Conceive or Not to Conceive?; Where is the M in PMTCT?; Continuing with a Positive Pregnancy; Contradictions of Positive Parenting; Moving through Motherhood; Conclusion; 8 Human Rights: Paths to Cosmopolitanism; Human Rights: An OverviewConstraints on the Human Rights Approach in Practice; First Principles: What Are 'Human Rights'?; Good Reasons to Believe in the Universality of Human Rights; Challenges to the Universality of Human Rights; Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights: The Way Forward; What about 'Exceptionalism' in the Context of Human Rights?; Conclusion; 9 Back to the Future; The Challenges of Funding: Past, Present and Future; Reshaping the Research Agenda: Bringing the Social and the Biomedical Together; Putting Fairness into Resource Allocation: Substantive versus Procedural Justice; Saving Life and Preventing Death
• Sommario/riassunto: Doyal brings together findings from a wide range of empirical studies spanning the social sciences to explore experiences of HIV positive people across the world. This will illustrate how the disease is physically manifested and psychologically internalised by individuals in diverse ways depending on the biological, social, cultural and economic circumstances in which they find themselves. A proper understanding of these commonalities and differences will be essential if future strategies are to be effective in mitigating the effects of HIV and AIDS.