American HIV/AIDS Narratives Disease And The Question Of Identity

The central argument of this book is that even as disease is experienced in the body individually, it is simultaneously cultural in its effects, since its implication is understood and represented by the community, nation and world in terms of medical, ethical and political issues that consequently address the question of identity of the diseased. It has been developed by studying different cultural perceptions and interpretations of diseases in general and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in particular. It has been made stronger by taking a close look at some of the American HIV/AIDS Narratives of the 1980s and 1990s.