Damaged Goods?: Women Living With Incurable Sexually Transmitted Diseases

by Adina Nack

Overview

About the Author:
Adina Nack is Associate Professor of Sociology at California Lutheran University

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592137084
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	06/06/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements     ix
Mixing Morality with Medicine     1
Sexual Invincibility     22
STD Anxiety     48
The Immoral Patient     65
Damaged Goods     86
Sexual Healing     103
Reintegrating the Sexual Self     129
From Personal Tragedies to Social Change     157
Gaining Entree-an Auto-Ethnographic Foundation     193
Research Methodology     201
Demographic Characteristics of Participants     209
Notes     215
Glossary     219
References     233
Index     243