The AIDS Crisis and the Modern Self
Subtitle: Biographical Self-Construction in the Awareness of Finitude (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780792363712
Subjects: AIDS: social aspects; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Self; General; Sociology Of Medicine; Aids (Psychosocial Aspects); Medical; Archaeology / Anthropology; Mental health; HIV-positive persons; Anthropology - Cultural; Diseases - AIDS & HIV; Health & Fitness : Diseases - AIDS & HIV; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy : Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social aspects; Infectious Diseases; AIDS (Disease)
First sentence: This book explores the consequences of the intense awareness of mortality - or, to use another term, finitude - for the affected individuals" self-construction.