Overview
This volume 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 the context of the sociology of risk. Chapters discuss issues such as: identity, social risk and AIDS; stigma; living and coping with HIV; the danger of disclosure; reported reactions in health care settings and sexual settings; and risk and reality.
Full Product Details
Author: Gill Green (University of Essex, UK) ,
Elisa Sobo (San Diego State University)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9781857289091
ISBN 10: 1857289099
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 09 March 2000
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'The Endangered Self marks a significant addition to our understanding of the risk attached to HIV. ... The careful and rigorous treatment of risk set out by the authors should help both researchers and practitioners make better sense of the world with which they are presented.' - Aids Care
To date, the majority of HIV/AIDS research has concentrated on education and prevention for those with a seronegative status, and studies of HIV positive individuals have been concerned with the potential to infect others. In this book, however, Green and Sobo focus on how the discovery of an HIV-positive status affects the individual's sense of identity and on the experience of living with HIV and its effects on the individual's social relationships. . . Drawing upon the concepts of stigma, dangerous identities, and health risk, the authors describe the revaluation that people with HIV and AIDS must make of the risks entailed by everyday social interactions, and examine their negotiation of these interactions.. <br>-J.M. Howe, AIDS Information Center, VA Headquarters (DC) CHOICE Dec '00 <br> This book exemplifies the analytic potential of risk and explore fully its many sociological dimensions. Upper-division undergraduate students.. <br>-J.M. Howe, AIDS Information Center, VA Headquarters (DC) <br>
Author Information
Gill Green is a Senior Lecturer at the Health and Social Services Institute, University of Essex. Elisa J. Sobo is Clinic Director and Associate Investigator, National Study of Nutrition an d Health, University of California, San Diego.
