COMMUNITY AND CONTAGION: A NEIGHBORHOOD'S RECEPTION TO A NURSING HOME FOR PEOPLE WITH AIDS (IMMUNE DEFICIENCY).
Contributors: University of Pennsylvania.
Published: 1994
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Sociology, General.; Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies.; Sociology, Public and Social Welfare.; Health Sciences, General.
Description: This is an ethnographic account of a neighborhood's response to the opening of a nursing home in their midst for people with AIDS. Located in the western outskirts of a large North East Coast American city, the neighborhood is a middle class residential community with a long tradition of ethnic and racial diversity. The study goes beyond much of the current research on community responses to residential care facilities, and stresses the importance of understanding how social status anxieties among local community groups, in combination with the degree of stigma associated with patient groups, determine the unfolding of such controversies. It also emphasizes the crucial influence of historical processes on community responses to residential care facilities and examines how the historical development of the neighborhood and the city's current experience of deindustrialization and urban decay have colored neighbor's reactions to the AIDS care facility.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-09, Section: A, page: 2995.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1994.

School code: 0175.