The Fragile Community; Living Together With AIDS
by Mara Adelman, Lawrence Frey
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- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0805818448
- ISBN 13
- 9780805818444
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About This Item
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1997 Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Mahwah, NJ. 1997. Softcover/Trade Wraps. 2nd Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light rubbing to panels. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 128 pp 8vo. This book examines the concept of "community," focusing on how communication practices help manage the tensions of creating and sustaining everyday communal life amidst the crisis of human loss. While acknowledging how the contradictory and inconsistent nature of human relationships inevitably affects community, this intimate and compelling text shows how community is created and sustained in concrete communication practices. The authors explore these ideas at Bonaventure House, an award-winning residential facility for people with AIDS, where the web of social relationships and the demands of a life-threatening illness intersect in complex ways. Facing a life-threatening illness can defy meaningful social connections, but it can also inspire such ties, sometimes in ways that elude us in the course of daily life. By understanding how collective communication practices help residents forge a sense of community out of the fragility and chaos of living together with AIDS, we are able to better understand how communication is inexorably intertwined with the formation of community in other environments. Based on seven years of ethnographic research including participant-observation, in-depth interviews, and questionnaires, this book weaves together narratives and visual images with conceptual analysis to uncover the ongoing oppositional forces of community life, and to show how both mundane and profound communication processes ameliorate these tensions, and thereby sustain this fragile community. Because the average length of stay for a resident is seven months -- in which time he or she moves from being a newcomer to a community member to someone the community remembers -- the text reflects this short, but crystallized life, starting with the day a new resident opens the door to the day he or she passes away. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010963
- Title
- The Fragile Community; Living Together With AIDS
- Author
- Mara Adelman, Lawrence Frey
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0805818448
- ISBN 13
- 9780805818444
- Publisher
- Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Mahwah, NJ
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- AIDS, communicable diseases, lifestyles, Bonaventure House, community, shared diseases, Leper Colonies, differences and conflicts, bereavement, communication, coping with illness and death, romance and AIDS, relationships and AIDS, medications, antivirals
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- LGBT Issues;
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