Against death : the practice of living with AIDS /: the practice of living with AIDS. ([2020?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert M. Ariss with Gary W. Dowsett.
• Authors: Ariss, Robert M, -1994; Dowsett, G. W (Gary W.)
• Contents: Introduction to the Series -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE THE ANTHROPoLOGY OF AIDS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- The Anthropology of illness -- Methodology -- Structure of the Study -- Terminology -- 2 GOVERNING AIDS: THE STATE-MEDICINE- COMMUNITY TRIAD -- The Interventionist State -- Biomedicine and Homosexuality -- Community as Administered Social Space -- 1. From Gay Liberation to Gay Community -- 2. The Emergence of a Gay Health Professional Class -- PART TWO THE TACTICS OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS -- 3 IDENTIFYING THE SUBJECT: HIV-ANTIBODY TESTING AS A SOCIAL PROCESS -- A Social Test -- Technology for Surveillance 1981—1988 -- Technology for Health from 1989 -- Responses to Testing -- 4 RECONSTRUCTING SELF AND OTHERS: MANAGING AN HIV-ANTIBODY POSITIVE STATUS -- Dc-Signifying a Positive Diagnosis -- Stigma and the Development of Spoiled Identity -- Relationships and Sexuality -- Social Networks -- Family -- Friends -- Support Groups -- 5 iN DIALOGUE WITH DOCTORS: ASPECTS OF A MEDICAL “CREOLE” -- T-Cell Talk -- Systematizing a Medical Creole -- Early Treatment: “Resistance” -- Altruism Versus Access -- Guinea Pigs and Men -- 6 BEYOND MEDICINE: ALTERNAHVE THERAPIES FOR HIV -- The Structure of a Tactical Alternative -- 1. Class -- 2. Gender -- 3. Ideology -- An Alternative Practitioner -- Alternative Medicine as a Health Tactic -- 7 REINVENTING DEATH -- The Modern Way To Go -- During Stormy Weather -- Mandatory Life -- Renouncing Life.Sustaining Technology -- A Beautiful Sunset -- PART THREE DISCURSIVE STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE -- PEOPLE LIVING WITh AIDS INC.: THE GENEALOGY OF A NEW IDENTITY -- The Project of Empowerment: Foundations The Denver Principles Statement from the -- Advisory Commitee of People with AIDS -- Illness Careers -- I. Sydney, October 1988 -- 2. Organizational Developments -- 3. Media Identities -- 4. Discipline and Organization -- 9 THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW TREATMENT ACTIVISM -- Taking on the Doctors -- Focusing on Treatment Issues -- AL72 1 and the Conduct of Trials -- Community Drug Trial Proposals -- 10 THERAPEUTIC TRUTH GAMES -- Antiviral Research: The Deployment of AZT -- Profit Versus Life: The First Wave of Protest -- The Shift to Trearnient for Prevention of Illncss -- Hidden Illness: Science Gazes upon the Well -- The Political Economy of Belief -- 11 GETFING ANGRY: EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION AS STRATEGIC INTENT -- ACT UP Sydney-Style -- Against Government -- Translating Anger: The Administration Reforms Itself -- Reinventing Our Selves -- 12 CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 1997
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 362.1969792; AIDS (Disease) -- Psychological aspects; AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment; Alternative medicine; Homosexuality; Social perception; AIDS (Disease) -- Psychological aspects; AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment; Alternative medicine; Homosexuality; Social perception; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781134387052; 1134387059
• Related ISBNs: 9789056995645; 9056995642
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.