The AIDS Notebooks

by Stephen Schecter

Book Overview

This book reflects on the meaning of contemporary life in the light of diverse social reactions to AIDS. Drawing on personal interviews with gay men in Montreal, newspaper reports, government action, historical parallels, and other social facts, the author shows what the AIDS phenomenon can reveal about the nature of current reality. Intimate dimensions of experience are explored in order to understand the medical definition of human life, the 'post-modern'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791403343
• ISBN13: 9780791403341
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"