The AIDS generation : stories of survival and resilience

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Label

The AIDS generation : stories of survival and resilience

Title remainder

stories of survival and resilience

Statement of responsibility

Perry N. Halkitis

Creator

• Halkitis, Perry N

Author

• Halkitis, Perry N

Subject

• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• Epidemics -- history
• Epidemiologie
• Gesundheitspolitik
• HIV Long-Term Survivors
• HIV-Infektion
• HIV-positive gay men -- United States -- Interviews
• HIV-positive gay men -- United States -- Psychology
• HIV-positive gay men -- United States -- Social conditions
• History, 20th Century
• AIDS
• Homosexuality, Male -- psychology
• Homosexueller
• Personal Narratives
• Prävention
• Soziale Situation
• United States
• Widerstandsfähigkeit
• History, 21st Century
• AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States

Genre

• Personal Narratives
• Interviews

Language

eng

Summary

For young gay men who came of age in the United States in the 1980s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was a formative experience in fear, hardship, and loss. Those who were diagnosed before 1996 suffered an exceptionally high rate of mortality, and the survivors, both the infected individuals and those close to them, today constitute a "bravest generation" in American history. This book examines the strategies for survival and coping employed by these HIV-positive gay men, who together constitute the first generation of long-term survivors of the disease. Through interviews conducted by the author, it narrates the stories of gay men who have survived since the early days of the epidemic; documents and delineates the strategies and behaviors enacted by men of this generation to survive it; and examines the extent to which these approaches to survival inform and are informed by the broad body of literature on resilience and health. The stories and strategies detailed here, all used to combat the profound physical, emotional, and social challenges faced by those in the crosshairs of the AIDS epidemic, provide a gateway for understanding how individuals cope with chronic and life-threatening diseases. Here the author takes readers on a journey of first-hand data collection (the interviews themselves), the popular culture representations of these phenomena, and his own experiences as one of the men of the AIDS generation. -- From publisher's website

Cataloging source

DNLM/DLC

Dewey number

614.5/99392

Index

index present

LC call number

RA643.83

LC item number

.H35 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

• 2014 A-947
• WC 503