Gill Green, Elisa Sobo

The Endangered Self

Identity and Social Risk

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The Endangered Self" 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 141mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781857289091
• ISBN-10: 1857289099
• Artikelnr.: 21171358

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Identity, social risk, and AIDS: whats the connection?
Chapter 2 Dangerous identities: stigmas and stories
Chapter 3 The landscape of risk: danger, identity, and HIV
Chapter 4 Settings and methods
Chapter 5 Living with HIV: coping with a new status
Chapter 6 Telling
Chapter 7 The danger of disclosure
Chapter 8 Reported reactions in health care settings
Chapter 9 Disclosure in sexual settings: identifying the issues
Chapter 10 Reported reactions in sexual settings: our findings
Chapter 11 Risk and reality: the social situation
Chapter 12 Seropositivity, identity, and social risk