Description
As Renfro argues, Ryan's fight to attend school forced the American public to reckon with prevailing misconceptions about the AIDS epidemic. Yet his story also reinforced the hierarchies at the heart of the AIDS crisis. Because the ""innocent"" Ryan had contracted HIV ""through no fault of his own,"" as many put it, his story was sometimes used to blame presumably ""guilty"" populations for spreading the virus. Reexamining Ryan's story through this lens, Renfro reveals how the consequences of this stigma continue to pervade policy and cultural understandings of HIV/AIDS today.
Book Information
ISBN 9781469680859
Author Paul M. Renfro
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press