9780789017574-0789017571-Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves (Haworth Psychosocial Issues of HIV/AIDS)

Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves (Haworth Psychosocial Issues of HIV/AIDS)

ISBN-13: 9780789017574
ISBN-10: 0789017571
Edition: 1
Author: Desiree Ciambrone, R Dennis Shelby
Publication date: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Hardcover 226 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780789017574
ISBN-10: 0789017571
Edition: 1
Author: Desiree Ciambrone, R Dennis Shelby
Publication date: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Hardcover 226 pages

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Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves (Haworth Psychosocial Issues of HIV/AIDS) (ISBN-13: 9780789017574 and ISBN-10: 0789017571), written by authors Desiree Ciambrone, R Dennis Shelby, was published by Routledge in 2003. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other AIDS (Diseases & Physical Ailments, Health Care Delivery, Administration & Medicine Economics, Social Sciences, Women's Studies) books. You can easily purchase or rent Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves (Haworth Psychosocial Issues of HIV/AIDS) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used AIDS books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Meet the women behind the statistics!Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on women, the fastest-growing subgroup of the HIV-infected population of the United States. Based on interviews with HIV-infected women, the book gives voice to their experiences. This powerful text offers a firsthand view of what it is like to live day-to-day as a woman with the added burden of HIV/AIDS.Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is a powerful and compelling look at the day-to-day struggles of 37 women infected with HIV. Their stories detail their ongoing efforts—with varying degrees of success—to come to grips with the disease as they try to rebuild their lives. Through qualitative analysis, the book demonstrates the importance of relational resources, such as AIDS activism, support groups, and social support. It also addresses potential problems for women associated with caregiving and presents ethnographic research findings on the complex factors that affect women with HIV (socioeconomic status, sexual preference, lifestyle differences). Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS also addresses research topics such as:

  • how HIV infection affects a woman's sense of self
  • how women repair disruption and restore identities
  • the limits to women's coping strategies and whether those strategies still work if women become functionally impaired or develop AIDS
  • how women's structural and social environments facilitate or impede repair
  • the role of women's informal networks in biological disruption and repair
A rare look at the experience of women infected with HIV (most studies focus on male samples), Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is an invaluable academic resource as a course supplement in the fields of medical sociology, women's studies, public health, and community health, and is an enlightening read for everyone interested in HIV/AIDS research.
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