After Diagnosis. HIV, the Prospect of Finitude, and Biographical Self-Construction

S. Rinken

Working Papers from European Institute - Political and Social Sciences

Abstract: How can individuals in contemporary Western societies constitute themselves as mortal beings? This question is addressed, in the following paper, on the basis of a series of interviews with Italian persons who have HIV or AIDS. Typically, at the time of diagnosis, the knowledge of having HIV was associated to the prospect of imminent death; this shock provoked the disruption of a particularly cherished aspect of the previously taken-for-granted self-definition.

Keywords: MORTALITY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 74 pages
Date: 1997
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