Beschreibung:
"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.
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;