Living with HIV and Dying with AIDS: Diversity, Inequality and Human Rights in the Global Pandemic

by Lesley Doyal, Len Doyal

Overview

Doyal brings together findings from a wide range of empirical studies spanning the social sciences to explore experiences of HIV positive people across the world. This will illustrate how the disease is physically manifested and psychologically internalised by individuals in diverse ways depending on the biological, social, cultural and economic circumstances in which they find themselves. A proper understanding of these commonalities and differences will be essential if future strategies are to be effective in mitigating the effects of HIV and AIDS.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472400147
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	06/28/2013
Series:	Global Health
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Lesley Doyal is Emeritus Professor of Health and Social Care at the University of Bristol, UK, and Len Doyal is Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics, Queen Mary University of London, UK.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Posing the Problems; Chapter 2 Mapping the Pandemic; Chapter 3 A Biographical Overview; Chapter 4 Depending on Health Care for Survival; Chapter 5 Challenging Livelihoods; Chapter 6 Changing Sexual Lives; Chapter 7 Shaping Reproductive Futures; Chapter 8 Human Rights; Chapter 9 Back to the Future;

Editorial Reviews

’Amidst the plethora of books on AIDS, this volume stands out for its concern to locate and properly contextualize the experiences of people with HIV, both socially and geographically. The authors are to be congratulated for synthesising and adding value to scholarship and advocacy internationally.’ Peter Aggleton, The University of New South Wales, Australia ’Doyal's book shows how social science can help understand and address the challenges facing people living with HIV around the world today. It is a magisterial synthesis presented in a lucid, straightforward and engaging style that illuminates what is at stake in living with HIV today. It is ideally suited to introducing students to this vast and important topic.’ Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Université de Montréal, Canada ’In this comprehensive book, Doyal starkly traces and connects the gross inequities of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, from infection to death, in relation to political geography, political economy, gender, sexuality, class, and race/ethnicity. Confronting how these inequities harm people with HIV/AIDS and their partners, parents, children, and communities, it offers a galvanizing introduction to the pandemic’s core equity issues.’ Nancy Krieger, Harvard School of Public Health, USA ’Offering compelling evidence of the inadequacy of biomedical models for the AIDS response, this book provides a clear and lucid look at the inequalities that drive growing rates of HIV infection and the inadequacy of existing systems to address them. Bringing to life the old adage the personal is political, it provides valuable evidence of the social and economic realities faced by HIV-infected people everywhere.’ Sofia Gruskin, University of Southern California, USA ’A powerful combination of qualitative empirical data, sensitive sociological insights into diverse contexts of living and dying with HIV/AIDS, and a clear explication of the relevance of human rights both within nations and globally

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