Code: 04709339

Mortal Secrets

Name: Mortal Secrets
Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
SKU: 04709339
Price: 62.36 EUR
Availability: InStock

by Robert Klitzman, Ronald Bayer

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 232
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003
More about this

62.36 €

Low in stock at our supplier
Shipping in 11 - 15 days

Potřebujete více kusů?Máte-li zájem o více kusů, prověřte, prosím, nejprve dostupnost titulu na naši zákaznické podpoře.

Add to wishlist

Die schnelle Reisküche!
10.77 € -5 %
Buy
Treatise on the Fevers of Jamaica, with Some Observations on the Intermitting Fever of America, and an Appendix, Containing Some Hints on the Means of
32.43 €
Buy
Amazing Mocha and his Courageous Journey
14.60 €
Buy
Best Plants to Attract and Keep Wildlife in the Garden
15 € -21 %
Buy
Just Another Chance
15.51 € -9 %
Buy
Diren
10.07 €
Buy
Theodor, Der Seifensieder
22.36 € -10 %
Buy

Give this book as a present today

Order book and choose Gift Order.
We will send you book gift voucher at once. You can give it out to anyone.
Book will be send to donee, nothing more to care about.

Book gift voucher sample Read more

You get 157 loyalty points

Book synopsis

In the era of the Internet and Oprah, in which formerly taboo information is readily available or freely confided, secrecy and privacy have in many ways given way to an onslaught of confession. Yet for those who are HIV positive, decisions about disclosure of their diagnosis force them to confront intimate, fundamental, and rarely discussed questions about truth, lies, sex, and trust. Drawing from interviews with over seventy gay men and women, intravenous drug users, sex workers, bisexual men, and heterosexual men and women, the authors provide a detailed portrait of moral, social, and psychological decision making. The interviews convey the complex emotions of love, lust, longing, hope, despair, and fear that shape individual dilemmas about whether to disclose to, deceive, or trust others concerning this disease. Some of those interviewed revealed their diagnosis widely; others told no one. Some struggled and ultimately told their partners; others spoke in codes or half-truths. One woman discovered her husband's diagnosis in a diary; when confronted, he denied it. Each year in the United States, 40,000 new cases of HIV arise, yet approximately one-third of the 900,000 Americans who are infected do not know it. As treatments have improved, unsafe sexual behavior has increased and efforts at prevention have stalled. Many of those infected continue to fear and experience rejection and discrimination. Addressing broad debates about the nature of secrecy, morality, and silence, this book explores public policy questions in the light of the nuanced, private decisions that are shaping the course of an epidemic and have broader indications for all.