| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 177 pages) |
| Contents |
Treating us, treating them -- Treating the numbers: HIV/AIDS surveillance, subjectivity, and risk -- Treating culture: the making of experts and communities -- Treating citizens: the promise of positive living -- Treating the nation: health disparities and the politics of difference -- Treating the West: afterthoughts on future directions. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
In Treating AIDS, Thurka Sangaramoorthy examines the everyday practices of HIV/AIDS prevention in the United States from the perspective of AIDS experts and Haitian immigrants in south Florida. Using in-depth ethnographic data, she underscores the difference between the global response to this public health crisis-where everyone is implicated as a potential carrier of risk-and the uncontested existence of racial and ethnic disparities in HIV/AIDS rates, access to treatment and care, and, especially, the stigma borne by carriers of the disease. |
| Subject |
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects.
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Health services accessibility -- United States.
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Social status -- Health aspects -- United States.
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Haitians -- United States -- Social conditions.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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| Added Title |
Treating acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Sangaramoorthy, Thurka, 1975- Treating AIDS 9780813563732 (DLC) 2013027188 (OCoLC)853435903 |
| ISBN |
9780813563749 (electronic bk.) |
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0813563747 (electronic bk.) |
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1306688930 (electronic bk.) |
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9781306688932 (electronic bk.) |
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