The endangered self managing the social risk of HIV /

The endangered self [electronic resource] : managing the social risk of HIV / Gill Green and Elisa J. Sobo.

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"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 their potential to infect others. The Endangered Self, however, focuses on how the discovery of an HIV-...

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Main Authors: Green, Gill, 1956- (Author), Sobo, Elisa Janine, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Series:Health, risk and society.
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects.
AIDS (Disease) > Psychological aspects.
Patients.
Immunologic diseases.
Human behavior.
Sexually transmitted diseases.
Public health.
Retrovirus infections.
Virus diseases.
Statistics.
Health services administration.
Diseases.
Medical care.
Risk assessment.
Group identity.
Social adjustment.
HIV infections.
Lentivirus infections.
Risk management.
Probabilities.
Victims.
Risk.
Immunological deficiency syndromes.
Organization.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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