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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Walt OdetsPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 15.20cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9780822316381ISBN 10: 0822316382 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 12 July 1995 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsWhat Odets says about being and staying HIV-negative is so commonsensical as to seem radical in this age of obfuscation. But it's time to stop pretending that the psychological damage of the AIDS epidemic does not affect how uninfected men feel about themselves and how they have sex. It's time to stop pretending that it's 'normal' that so many of the people we have loved have died at young ages or that it's 'normal' because we're gay that we have to worry about a fatal infection each time we make love. It's not normal and it's not okay, and I, for one, am thankful to Walt Odets for standing up and saying so. <br>--John-Manuel Andriote, Lambda Book Report Odets presents an often harrowing picture of frailty and vulnerability on a massive scale, and his book is a much-needed corrective to the complacent view that everything is basically OK in the domain of gay men's safer sex education. In the Shadow of the Epidemic will doubtless become an instant locus classicus for subsequent debate about the short- and long-term psychological impact of the epidemic and the types of intervention necessary to reduce wide-scale suffering. -Simon Watney, author of Practices of Freedom: Selected Writings on HIV/AIDS Author InformationWalt Odets is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Berkeley, California. A member of the AIDS Task Force of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, he has spoken and written frequently on the psychosocial issues of HIV-negative men and AIDS prevention for gay men. He is also an editor and contributor for the series AIDS Management: The Role of the Mental Health Community and a contributing author to Therapists on the Front Line: Psychotherapy with Gay Men in the Age of AIDS. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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