Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-187) and index.
Contents:
The political economy of stigma and the production of memoir -- Writing labor, writing privilege in HIV memoir -- Diagnostic reading and the limits of disability memoir -- Privacy, bioethics, and narrative medicine -- Work, disclosure, and the HIV origin story -- Power, resistance, and differential reading practices.
Summary:
"A study for reading and interpreting disability and illness narrative and stigma within a neoliberal context. Uses HIV memoirs and interviews with women living with HIV to forward a new model or reading called differential reading"-- Provided by publisher.
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