Against Death: The Practice of Living with AIDS

By Robert Ariss and Gary Dowsett

Robert Ariss - activist and academic - had a unique vision of HIV/AIDS. As an HIV seropositive individual for many years before his death on May 9, 1994, he was a full participant in, and critic of, the development of the gay community's response to the HIV epidemic both in Australia and internationally. Though Ariss' life is a definite presence in this study, Against Death: The Practice of Living with AIDS is not an autobiography. Instead, it is a unique and critical account of a public health crisis, a community's response, and the politics of sexuality. It was in Sydney, Australia, world-famous for its Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, that Robert Ariss lived and worked. It is his vision of that community - of its members infected with and affected by HIV - which is documented in this remarkable anthropological study. Yet the study's implications reach beyond Sydney to all communities living with HIV and AIDS.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9056995642
• ISBN13: 9789056995645
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"