Overview
- The first in-depth, cross-cultural book focused on couples living with mixed HIV status
- Demystifies a highly stigmatized and little understood population in the global HIV epidemic
- Provides original and empirically grounded insights into the cultural interplay of illness, intimacy, gender, and biomedicine in diverse settings with relevance beyond HIV
- Provides new and unique ways to conceptualize serodiscordance
Part of the book series: Social Aspects of HIV (SHIV, volume 2)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Biomedicine, Change & Diversity: Conceptualising Serodiscordance
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Stigma, Culture & Gender: Contextualising Serodiscordance
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Love, Risk & Relationships: Negotiating Serodiscordance
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Couples with Mixed HIV Status: Beyond Positive/Negative
Editors: Asha Persson, Shana D. Hughes
Series Title: Social Aspects of HIV
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42725-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42723-2Published: 05 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82646-2Published: 21 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42725-6Published: 24 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2509-6559
Series E-ISSN: 2509-6567
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 276
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Health, Family, Infectious Diseases, Sociology, general