{"product_id":"in-the-shadow-of-the-epidemic-being-hiv-negative-in-the-age-of-aids-paperback","title":"In the Shadow of the Epidemic: Being Hiv-Negative in the Age of AIDS - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWalt Odets\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor gay men who are HIV-negative in a community devastated by AIDS, survival may be a matter of grief, guilt, anxiety, and isolation. \u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of the Epidemic\u003c\/i\u003e is a passionate and intimate look at the emotional and psychological impact of AIDS on the lives of the survivors of the epidemic, those who must face on a regular basis the death of friends and, in some cases, the decimation of their communities. Drawing upon his own experience as a clinical psychologist and a decade-long involvement with AIDS\/HIV issues, Walt Odets explores the largely unrecognized matters of denial, depression, and identity that mark the experience of uninfected gay men.\u003cbr\u003eOdets calls attention to the dire need to address issues that are affecting HIV-negative individuals-from concerns about sexuality and relations with those who are HIV-positive to universal questions about the nature and meaning of survival in the midst of disease. He argues that such action, while explicitly not directing attention away from the needs of those with AIDS, is essential to the human and biological well-being of gay communities. In the immensely powerful firsthand words of gay men living in a semiprivate holocaust, the need for a broader, compassionate approach to \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e of the AIDS epidemic's victims becomes clear. \u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of the Epidemic\u003c\/i\u003e is a pathbreaking first step toward meeting that need.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOdets presents an often harrowing picture of frailty and vulnerability on a massive scale, and his book is a much-needed corrective to the complacent view that everything is basically OK in the domain of gay men's safer sex education. In the Shadow of the Epidemic\" will doubtless become an instant \"locus classicus\" for subsequent debate about the short- and long-term psychological impact of the epidemic and the types of intervention necessary to reduce wide-scale suffering.\"--Simon Watney, author of \"Practices of Freedom: Selected Writings on HIV\/AIDS\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalt Odets is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Berkeley, California. A member of the AIDS Task Force of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, he has spoken and written frequently on the psychosocial issues of HIV-negative men and AIDS prevention for gay men. He is also an editor and contributor for the series \u003ci\u003eAIDS Management: The Role of the Mental Health Community\u003c\/i\u003e and a contributing author to \u003ci\u003eTherapists on the Front Line: Psychotherapy with Gay Men in the Age of AIDS\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.98 x 9.26 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 12, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752183890208,"sku":"9780822316381","price":56.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b4fa1e8c93f208e56269f6a1b179a8ac.webp?v=1779989506","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/in-the-shadow-of-the-epidemic-being-hiv-negative-in-the-age-of-aids-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}