The Evolution Of Aids Narratives
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The Evolution Of Aids Narratives
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Author : Jennifer Jean Lavoie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Evolution Of Aids Narratives written by Jennifer Jean Lavoie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with AIDS (Disease) categories.
At the beginning of the AIDS crisis in 1981, most literature about the disease came in the form of medical reports written by doctors observing unusual clusters of Pneumocystis pneumonia. It wasn't until 1988 that the first AIDS memoir emerged--and with it came a wholly new literary genre. However, while AIDS fiction is heavily analyzed by literary critics, these narratives, particularly contemporary memoirs, are often left untouched. While there has been discussion of early narratives, including the seminal AIDS Borrowed Time (1988) by Paul Monette, little has been done with more contemporary memoirs, such as Body Counts (2014) by Sean Strub and The Nearness of Others (2014) by David Caron. Though all three are considered literary AIDS memoirs that share a focus on the politics and treatment of AIDS, I suggest a shift occurs between the earliest memoirs and those published within the last decade. Drawing on Monette, Strub, and Caron as my examples, and using close reading in conjunction with historical and medical texts, I will discuss the evolution I have noted--a shift in representations with AIDS becoming as the central focus in life of the author, on the one hand, to representations of AIDS as just another part of a life prolonged by effective medical treatments. However, I also propose here that a secondary, slightly less expected shift occurs within the gay community after this medicine is introduced. I argue that, while medical progress extends the life of a patient with HIV, it also, paradoxically, appears to reverse the social and political progress of the HIV community, pushing them outside the culture of their larger communities. Reading HIV/AIDS memoirs as literature will continue to highlight not only the struggles within the positive community, but also within the LGBT community itself. Furthermore, considering these memoirs as literary, and even social treatises in their own right, will allow us to see the ironies and injustices perpetuated by the institutions we would ordinarily expect to protect us.
Aids Narratives
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Author : Steven F. Kruger
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-28
Aids Narratives written by Steven F. Kruger and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first book-length study of the rich fiction that has emerged from the AIDS crisis. Examining first the ways in which scientific discourse on AIDS has reflected ideologies of gender and sexuality-such as the construction of AIDS as a disease of gay men, part of a battle over masculinity, and thus largely excluding women with AIDS from public attention-the book considers how such discourses have shaped narrative understandings of AIDS. On the one hand, AIDS is seen as an invariably fatal weakening of an individual's bodily defenses, a depiction often used to reconfirm an identification between disease and a weak and vulnerable gayness. On the other hand, AIDS is understood in terms of an epidemic attributable to gay immorality or unnaturalness. The fiction of AIDS depends upon these two narratives, with one major subgenre of AIDS novel presenting narratives of personal illness, decline, and death, and a second focusing on epidemic spread. These novels also question the narrative structures upon which they depend, intervening particularly against the homophobia of those structures, though also sometimes reinforcing it.
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Author : Stephanie Nolen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
28 written by Stephanie Nolen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Health & Fitness categories.
Twenty-eight anecdotal stories that chronicle men, women, and children involved in every aspect of the African AIDS crisis.
The Aids Generation
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Author : Perry N. Halkitis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-15
The Aids Generation written by Perry N. Halkitis and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with Medical categories.
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. The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience 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. Halkitis 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. This riveting account will be of interest to health practitioners and historians throughout the clinical and social sciences -- or to anyone with an interest in this important chapter in social history. Cover photo courtesy of Fire Island Pines Historical Preservation Society.
A Visual History Of Hiv Aids
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Author : Elisabet Björklund
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2018-07-04
A Visual History Of Hiv Aids written by Elisabet Björklund and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-04 with Performing Arts categories.
The Face of AIDS film archive at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, consists of more than 700 hours of unedited and edited footage, shot over a period of more than thirty years and all over the world by filmmaker and journalist Staffan Hildebrand. The material documents the HIV/AIDS pandemic and includes scenes from conferences and rallies, and interviews with activists, physicians, people with the infection, and researchers. It represents a global historical development from the early years of the AIDS crisis to a situation in which it is possible to live a normal life with the HIV virus. This volume brings together a range of academic perspectives – from media and film studies, medical history, gender studies, history, and cultural studies – to bear on the archive, shedding light on memories, discourses, trauma, and activism. Using a medical humanities framework, the editors explore the influence of historical representations of HIV/AIDS and stigma in a world where antiretroviral treatment has fundamentally altered the conditions under which many people diagnosed with HIV live. Organized into four sections, this book begins by introducing the archive and its role, setting it in a global context. The first part looks at methodological, legal and ethical issues around archiving memories of the present which are then used to construct histories of the past; something that can be particularly controversial when dealing with a socially stigmatized epidemic such as HIV/AIDS. The second section is devoted to analyses of particular films from the archive, looking at the portrayal of people living with HIV/AIDS, the narrative of HIV as a chronic illness and the contemporary context of particular films. The third section looks at how stigma and trauma are negotiated in the material in the Face of AIDS film archive, discussing ideas about suffering and culpability. The final section contributes perspectives on and by the filmmaker as activist and auteur. This interdisciplinary collection is placed at the intersection of medical humanities, sexuality studies and film and media studies, continuing a tradition of studies on the cultural and social understandings of HIV/AIDS.
The Aids Crisis
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Author : Douglas A. Feldman
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1998-06-25
The Aids Crisis written by Douglas A. Feldman and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-06-25 with Health & Fitness categories.
AIDS has grown in just two decades from a rare disease to one that has already killed millions of men, women, and children worldwide. To help high school and college students understand the history and current status of AIDS as a social, political, psychological, public health, and cultural phenomenon, this documentary history provides 228 short and highly readable selections from primary and secondary sources of information about AIDS and HIV. Its scope covers the entire history of the epidemic from its beginnings to early 1997. The documents, many of which cannot easily be found elsewhere, will help the reader to understand and debate the many perspectives and points of view on this controversial topic. Douglas A. Feldman, one of the country's leading specialists in international and domestic AIDS social research, and Julia Wang Miller, a research consultant, have selected documents and provided explanatory introductions to them to help readers gain a deeper understanding of the sociocultural ramifications of AIDS. Following a narrative historical overview of the AIDS crisis, the work is organized into nine topical chapters: the history of HIV/AIDS; the impact of the epidemic in the United States and globally; HIV/AIDS within communities and populations; AIDS in the developing world; the human side of AIDS; the politics of AIDS; education and behavioral change; legal and ethical issues; and the future of AIDS. Each chapter contains an introductory narrative overview of the topic, brief explanatory introduction to each document, and list of suggested readings. A glossary of terms and an AIDS resource directory of organizations to contact for further information complete the work. This important documentary history belongs on the shelves of every public school and college and university library.
Aids And The Distribution Of Crises
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Author : Jih-Fei Cheng
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-17
Aids And The Distribution Of Crises written by Jih-Fei Cheng and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-17 with Social Science categories.
AIDS and the Distribution of Crises engages with the AIDS pandemic as a network of varied historical, overlapping, and ongoing crises born of global capitalism and colonial, racialized, gendered, and sexual violence. Drawing on their investments in activism, media, anticolonialism, feminism, and queer and trans of color critiques, the scholars, activists, and artists in this volume outline how the neoliberal logic of “crisis” structures how AIDS is aesthetically, institutionally, and politically reproduced and experienced. Among other topics, the authors examine the writing of the history of AIDS; settler colonial narratives and laws impacting risk in Indigenous communities; the early internet regulation of both content and online AIDS activism; the Black gendered and sexual politics of pleasure, desire, and (in)visibility; and how persistent attention to white men has shaped AIDS as intrinsic to multiple, unremarkable crises among people of color and in the Global South. Contributors. Cecilia Aldarondo, Pablo Alvarez, Marlon M. Bailey, Emily Bass, Darius Bost, Ian Bradley-Perrin, Jih-Fei Cheng, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Roger Hallas, Pato Hebert, Jim Hubbard, Andrew J. Jolivette, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery, Alexandra Juhasz, Dredge Byung'chu Kang-Nguyễn, Theodore (Ted) Kerr, Catherine Yuk-ping Lo, Cait McKinney, Viviane Namaste, Elton Naswood, Cindy Patton, Margaret Rhee, Juana María Rodríguez, Sarah Schulman, Nishant Shahani, C. Riley Snorton, Eric A. Stanley, Jessica Whitbread, Quito Ziegler
A Grassroots History Of The Hiv Aids Epidemic In North America
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Author : James Gillett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
A Grassroots History Of The Hiv Aids Epidemic In North America written by James Gillett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with AIDS (Disease) categories.
This book provides a comprehensive history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in North America, with particular emphasis on the role of HIV/AIDS activists and organizations. The author is a professor of sociology.
The Origins Of Aids
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Author : Jacques Pépin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-21
The Origins Of Aids written by Jacques Pépin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-21 with History categories.
An updated edition of Jacques Pépin's acclaimed account of the events that transformed a chimpanzee virus into a global pandemic.
Aids Doctors
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Author : Ronald Bayer
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2003-05-08
Aids Doctors written by Ronald Bayer and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-08 with Medical categories.
Today, AIDS has been indelibly etched in our consciousness. Yet it was less than twenty years ago that doctors confronted a sudden avalanche of strange, inexplicable, seemingly untreatable conditions that signaled the arrival of a devastating new disease. Bewildered, unprepared, and pushed to the limit of their diagnostic abilities, a select group of courageous physicians nevertheless persevered. This unique collective memoir tells their story. Based on interviews with nearly eighty doctors whose lives and careers have centered on the AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s to the present, this candid, emotionally textured account details the palpable anxiety in the medical profession as it experienced a rapid succession of cases for which there was no clinical history. The physicians interviewed chronicle the roller coaster experiences of hope and despair, as they applied newly developed, often unsuccessful therapies. Yet these physicians who chose to embrace the challenge confronted more than just the sense of therapeutic helplessness in dealing with a disease they could not conquer. They also faced the tough choices inherent in treating a controversial, sexually and intravenously transmitted illness as many colleagues simply walked away. Many describe being gripped by a sense of mission: by the moral imperative to treat the disempowered and despised. Nearly all describe a common purpose, an esprit de corps that bound them together in a terrible yet exhilarating war against an invisible enemy. This extraordinary oral history forms a landmark effort in the understanding of the AIDS crisis. Carefully collected and eloquently told, the doctors' narratives reveal the tenacity and unquenchable optimism that has paved the way for taming a 20th-century plague.