Research Catalog

Title

In the shadow of the epidemic : being HIV-negative in the age of AIDS / Walt Odets.

Author

Odets, Walt.

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.

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Details

Description

x, 314 pages; 24 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Series Q

Uniform Title

Series Q.

Subject

• Gay men > Mental health
• AIDS (Disease) > Psychological aspects
• AIDS phobia
• Homosexuality, Male > psychology
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > psychology
• HIV Seronegativity
• Phobic Disorders
• Homosexueller
• Psychische Gesundheit
• Phobie
• AIDS

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-300) and index.

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction (starting p. 1) -- A Word about the Writer and the Reader (starting p. 11) -- 1 Why We Need a Book about Being HIV-Negative (starting p. 13) -- 2 The Psychological Epidemic (starting p. 23) -- 3 Survivor Guilt and Related Family Matters (starting p. 40) -- 4 Life in the Shadow: Loss and Mourning (starting p. 63) -- 5 Being Outsiders: The "HIV-Negative" Identity (starting p. 99) -- 6 Being Alone (starting p. 123) -- 7 Being Together: The Relations of Positives and Negatives (starting p. 145) -- 8 Being Sexual: The Politics and Humanity of Gay Sex in the Epidemic (starting p. 178) -- 9 Being Here: Other Kinds of Survival (starting p. 233) -- Epilogue (starting p. 265) -- Notes (starting p. 281) -- Index (starting p. 301)

ISBN

• 0822316269
• 9780822316268
• 0822316382
• 9780822316381

LCCN

95001311

OCLC

• ocm31901661
• 31901661
• SCSB-2065988

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library