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Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City - How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds (Hardcover)
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Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City - How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds (Hardcover)
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Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City explores the survival
strategies of poor, HIV-positive Puerto Rican women by asking four
key questions: Given their limited resources, how did they manage
an illness as serious as HIV/AIDS? Did they look for alternatives
to conventional medical treatment? Did the challenges they faced
deprive them of self-determination, or could they help themselves
and each other? What can we learn from these resourceful women?
Based on her work with minority women living in Newark, New Jersey,
Sabrina Marie Chase illuminates the hidden traps and land mines
burdening our current health care system as a whole. For the women
she studied, alliances with doctors, nurses, and social workers
could literally mean the difference between life and death. By
applying the theories of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to the
day-to-day experiences of HIV-positive Latinas, Chase explains why
some struggled and even died while others flourished and thrived
under difficult conditions. These gripping, true-life stories
advocate for those living with chronic illness who depend on the
health care "safety net." Through her exploration of life and death
among Newark's resourceful women, Chase provides the groundwork for
inciting positive change in the U.S. health care system.
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