Robert Ariss

Against Death (eBook, ePUB)

The Practice of Living With Aids

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134387052
• Artikelnr.: 59339453

Autorenporträt

Robert M. Ariss,

Inhaltsangabe

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.