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Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City - How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds (Paperback)
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Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City - How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds (Paperback)
Series: Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality, and Social Justice
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"In this original and interdisciplinary book, Chase illuminates the
unequal treatment faced by the Puerto Rican women she studied and
creates compassion for the hardships they faced." -Michele Tracey
Berger, author of The Intersectional Approach 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
urban health care system. 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 occasionally thrived under
difficult conditions. These gripping, true-life stories reveal the
strategies utilized by the chronically ill among us 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 transforming our ailing urban health care system.
SABRINA MARIE CHASE is a medical anthropologist specializing in
family medicine and racial and ethnic health care disparities. She
is a health care researcher at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School. A volume in the Studies in Medical Anthropology series,
edited by Mac Marshall
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