01602 a2200277 4500 1134387059 20250317100350.0 250312042020GB eng 9781134387052 Taylor & Francis GBP 27.99 BB 01 eng JHM thema JHM bic HEA039020 bisac HEA042000 bisac MED004000 bisac SOC002000 bisac 362.1969792 bisac Robert Ariss Against Death The Practice of Living With Aids 1 Oxford Routledge 20200428 176 p 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. 87 87