Against death : the practice of living with AIDS
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Against death : the practice of living with AIDS
(Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health / a series edited by Libbet Crandon-Malamud, v. 5)
Gordon and Breach, 1997
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ISBN 9789056995638
Description
Robert Ariss - activist and academic - had a unique vision of HIV/AIDS. As an HIV seropositive individual for many years before his death on May 9, 1994, he was a full participant in, and critic of, the development of the gay community's response to the HIV epidemic both in Australia and internationally. Though Ariss' life is a definite presence in this study, Against Death: The Practice of Living with AIDS is not an autobiography. Instead, it is a unique and critical account of a public health crisis, a community's response, and the politics of sexuality. It was in Sydney, Australia, world-famous for its Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, that Robert Ariss lived and worked. It is his vision of that community - of its members infected with and affected by HIV - which is documented in this remarkable anthropological study. Yet the study's implications reach beyond Sydney to all communities living with HIV and AIDS.
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: pbk. ISBN 9789056995645
Description
Robert Ariss - activist and academic - had a unique vision of HIV/AIDS. As an HIV seropositive individual for many years before his death on May 9, 1994, he was a full participant in, and critic of, the development of the gay community's response to the HIV epidemic both in Australia and internationally. Though Ariss' life is a definite presence in this study, Against Death: The Practice of Living with AIDS is not an autobiography. Instead, it is a unique and critical account of a public health crisis, a community's response, and the politics of sexuality. It was in Sydney, Australia, world-famous for its Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, that Robert Ariss lived and worked. It is his vision of that community - of its members infected with and affected by HIV - which is documented in this remarkable anthropological study. Yet the study's implications reach beyond Sydney to all communities living with HIV and AIDS.
Table of 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.
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