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A Reason to Live - HIV and Animal Companions (Paperback)
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A Reason to Live - HIV and Animal Companions (Paperback)
Series: New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond
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A Reason to Live explores the human-animal relationship through the
narratives of eleven people living with HIV and their animal
companions. The narratives, based on a series of interviews with
HIV-positive individuals and their animal companions in Australia,
span the entirety of the HIV epidemic, from public awareness and
discrimination in the 1980s and 1990s to survival and hope in the
twenty-first century. Each narrative is explored within the context
of theory (for example, attachment theory, the ""biophilia
hypothesis,"" neurochemical and neurophysiological effects,
laughter, play, death anxiety, and stigma) in order to understand
the unique bond between human and animal during an ""epidemic of
stigma."" A consistent theme is that these animals provided their
human companions with ""a reason to live"" throughout the epidemic.
Long-term survivors describe past animal companions who intuitively
understood their needs and offered unconditional love and support
during this turbulent period. More recently diagnosed HIV-positive
narrators describe animal companions within the context of hope and
the wellness narrative of living and aging with HIV in the
twenty-first century. Bringing together these narratives offers
insight into one aspect of the multifaceted HIV epidemic when human
turned against human, and helps explain why it was frequently left
to the animals to support their human companions. Importantly, it
recognizes the enduring bond between human and animal within the
context of theory and narrative, thus creating a cultural memory in
a way that has never been done before.
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