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.

The decaying Empire faces barbarian enemies without and corruption and treachery within. Exile Ronne tes Arhi fights for her own survival and for what once made the Empire great-honor-wherever she can find it. Even in an outcast barbarian warrior. A story of resurgent magic, adventure, and epic battle by the author of The Last Mage Guardian and the Sequoyah trilogy.

A collection of short stories, set in a government office that could never be... Hidden behind protective layers of government red tape, the Bureau of Substandards fights the good fight against interdimensional snake people, "helpful" allies, busybodies from Atlantis, the annual budget report, and, most dangerous of all...the HR department. The Inspection-- Submarine captain Commander Morton desperately needs to hide Things Government Was Not Meant To Know--with the help of a few unusual friends. The Correct Way to Fill Out Form PCR-103-u -- When evil insinuates a multidimensional soda machine into the secure confines of the Bureau, only one thing can save the world...more paperwork Read This Memo -- Even the most capable bureaucracy fears the sheer chaos of the Company Party... Where the Money Went -- A stuck filing cabinet, a missing budget, a deadline...and a tuna sandwich on the attack All According to Regulations -- A young bureaucrat in possession of a dangerous job must be in need of an admin. Tales of bureaucratic adventure and derring-do in the tradition of Keith Laumer's "Retief"

Nobody mentioned notorious space pirates worried about housing issues, but Moire Cameron must plan for enemy attacks--with even more people to protect than her crew. Increasingly desperate as her options vanish and Toren closes in, can she refuse any alliance? Even with the enemy? The triumphal, action-packed conclusion to the Sequoyah trilogy.

Everything works on Raven--unlike some ships Moire Cameron crewed on. No excuses left. Somebody created Alan, an eight-year-old boy in an adult body, and she needs to hunt them down and stop them. But can she destroy the facility and rescue the other created children? Or will she need to choose? Continuing the fast-paced adventure of "The Long Way Home," the second book of the Sequoyah trilogy adds more mysteries and reveals others in a trademark style.

Her great-uncle, the mage Oron, bequeathed to her his oak-shaded chateau and a debt of magical honor. But Miss Ardhuin Andrews must hide her magical talents. How can she repay the debt? Political intrigue, duty, and echoes of an old war not truly ended combine to create a smoldering crisis in a world where magic and science coexist.

Wars make good cover for people with secrets. A mercenary company in a deep-space war? Even better. Now Moire Cameron just needs a way to fulfil her last order, given by a dying man eighty years ago. If she lives long enough. A tale of action, adventure, survival, and loyalty in the tradition of Firefly and Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Long Way Home" is the first book in the Seqyoyah trilogy.

"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