Description: "Odets presents an often harrowing picture of frailty and vulnerability on a massive scale, and his book is a much-needed corrective to the complacent view that everything is basically OK in the domain of gay men's safer sex education. "In the Shadow of the Epidemic" will doubtless become an instant "locus classicus" for subsequent debate about the short- and long-term psychological impact of the epidemic and the types of intervention necessary to reduce wide-scale suffering."--Simon Watney, author of "Practices of Freedom: Selected Writings on HIV/AIDS"
Review Quotes: "Odets presents an often harrowing picture of frailty and vulnerability on a massive scale, and his book is a much-needed corrective to the complacent view that everything is basically OK in the domain of gay men's safer sex education. In the Shadow of the Epidemic will doubtless become an instant locus classicus for subsequent debate about the short- and long-term psychological impact of the epidemic and the types of intervention necessary to reduce wide-scale suffering."--Simon Watney, author of Practices of Freedom: Selected Writings on HIV/AIDS