Violence in pursuit of health : living with HIV in the American prison system / Landon Kuester.
Kuester, Landon, author.
2021
HV8838
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Title Violence in pursuit of health : living with HIV in the American prison system / Landon Kuester.
Author Kuester, Landon, author.
ISBN 9783030613501 (electronic bk.)
303061350X (electronic bk.)
9783030613495
3030613496
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61350-1
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 197 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-61350-1 doi
Call Number HV8838
Dewey Decimal Classification 365.6670973
Summary This book offers a unique examination of how violence is situationally induced and reproduced for those inmates living with HIV in a US State prison system. Imprisonment is the only space where Americans have a constitutional right to healthcare but findings from this research suggest that accessing this care and associated welfare benefits requires some degree of violence. This book documents how HIV-positive inmates went about achieving agency through harm to their bodies and social standing to improve their health and wellbeing, in prison and upon re-entry to the community. It focusses on ethnographic research which was carried out in seven penal facilities in New England and comprises of accounts from inmates, prison staff, healthcare providers, ex-offenders, and community social workers. This book speaks to academics interested in prisons, violence, health, and ethnographic research, and to policy makers.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 17, 2021).
Series Palgrave studies in prisons and penology.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030613495
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1. Introduction: Violence in pursuit of health
2. A study on prison violence and HIV
3. Why would an inmate swallow razor blades?
4. Benefits of degradation
5. The staff who play prison games
6. From care to corrections
Discussion: Degradation and prison games.

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