Against Death: The Practice of Living With Aids (Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology/ Int'l Hlth) (Volume 0)

Ariss, Robert

ISBN 10: 9056995642 / ISBN 13: 9789056995645

Published by Routledge, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Against Death: The Practice of Living With Aids (Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology/ Int'l Hlth) (Volume 0)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9056995642
• ISBN 13: 9789056995645
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Robert Ariss - activist and academic - had a unique vision of HIV/AIDS. As an HIV seropositive individual for many years before his death on May 9, 1994, he was a full participant in, and critic of, the development of the gay community's response to the HIV epidemic both in Australia and internationally. Though Ariss' life is a definite presence in this study, Against Death: The Practice of Living with AIDS is not an autobiography. Instead, it is a unique and critical account of a public health crisis, a community's response, and the politics of sexuality. It was in Sydney, Australia, world-famous for its Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, that Robert Ariss lived and worked. It is his vision of that community - of its members infected with and affected by HIV - which is documented in this remarkable anthropological study. Yet the study's implications reach beyond Sydney to all communities living with HIV and AIDS.

About the Author

Robert M. Ariss,