Families and Communities Responding to AIDS
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| Title: | Families and Communities Responding to AIDS |
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| Description: | All over the world, families and communities are key providers of care and support. This is particularly true in relation to serious illnesses such as HIV and AIDS. Yet families and communities can also stigmatize their members, leaving people to die in the most appalling conditions. This book looks at the diversity of family and community responses to HIV and AIDS. By examining contexts as diverse as nuclear, extended and refugee family households, and gay community networks and structures, it offers important insight into the factors which lead to positive responses and those which trigger negative ones. |
| Authors: | Peter Aggleton, Peter Davies, Graham Hart |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Gay men--Health and hygiene, Immigrants--Health and hygiene, AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Family relationships, Health behavior, Social ecology |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, MEDICAL / AIDS & HIV, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | All over the world, families and communities are key providers of care and support. This is particularly true in relation to serious illnesses such as HIV and AIDS. Yet families and communities can also stigmatize their members, leaving people to die in the most appalling conditions. This book looks at the diversity of family and community responses to HIV and AIDS. By examining contexts as diverse as nuclear, extended and refugee family households, and gay community networks and structures, it offers important insight into the factors which lead to positive responses and those which trigger negative ones. |
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| ISBN: | 9781857289992 9781857289657 9780203159125 9781135357306 9781135357290 9781135357276 9780203019238 |
