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(More customer reviews)Unlike many academic treatises, Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City is written clearly and understandably. Unfamiliar terms are clearly defined without interrupting the flow of the writing, and the writing style is smooth and simple. There's no jarring intrusion of the author's persona, only a clear and compelling explanation of her research and conclusions.
Ms. Chase does an excellent job of making abstract anthropological concepts like habitus and cultural capital meaningful and clearly relates the quality of care received to how well a patient can play to her audience. The inequities in care due to cultural differences are crystal clear in the stories she tell.
On that subject, what stories they are! I'm still laughing over my favorite quote: "...hello! I'm not taking any chances. I'm going to kill a chicken..." Through a series of well chosen anecdotes, Ms. Chase takes the reader into the lives of her study subjects, clearly showing their humanity, the devastating impact of an HIV/AIDS diagnosis on their lives and most importantly how their quality of care is directly related to their cultural expertise.
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