Description |
1 online resource (x, 314 pages) |
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Series Q |
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Series Q
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Contents |
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Word about the Writer and the Reader -- 1. Why We Need a Book about Being HIV-Negative -- 2. The Psychological Epidemic -- 3. Survivor Guilt and Related Family Matters -- 4. Life in the Shadow: Loss and Mourning -- 5. Being Outsiders: The HIV-Negative Identity -- 6. Being Alone -- 7. Being Together: The Relations of Positives and Negatives -- 8. Being Sexual: The Politics and Humanity of Gay Sex in the Epidemic -- 9. Being Here: Other Kinds of Survival -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
Summary |
For gay men who are HIV-negative in a community devastated by AIDS, survival may be a matter of grief, guilt, anxiety, and isolation. In the SHADOW OF THE EPIDEMIC is a passionate and intimate look at the emotional and psychological impact of AIDS on the lives of the survivors of the epidemic, those who must face on a regular basis the death of friends and, in some cases, the decimation of their communities |
Analysis |
AIDS (Disease) Psychological aspects |
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AIDS phobia |
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Gay men Mental health |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-300) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Gay men -- Mental health
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AIDS (Disease) -- Psychological aspects
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AIDS phobia.
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Homosexuality, Male -- psychology
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- psychology
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HIV Seronegativity
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Phobic Disorders
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Lifespan Development.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health.
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AIDS (Disease) -- Psychological aspects
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AIDS phobia
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Gay men -- Mental health
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Homosexueller
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Psychische Gesundheit
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Phobie
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Aids
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780822379232 |
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0822379236 |
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