HIV must surely be one of the most researched topics in the last fifty years (a casual Google Scholar search produced over four million hits). At least in the developed world, much of the psychosocial literature on the topic has been written by the communities most impacted by the virus. HIV Endurance: Women’s Journeys from Diagnosis to Aging, based on the author’s doctoral research, offers a courageous autoethnographic approach to the experiences of the author and the seventeen women living with HIV (fourteen African Americans, one Hispanic, and two white) who participated in her project. The book is part of a series called Health and Aging in the Margins, A.H.C. Nowakowski, series editor, which focuses on scholars who themselves have experienced intersectional marginalization and who engage their personal biography in scholarly activity. D’Amore certainly fulfills that brief. She integrates the stories of her participants and her own lived experience...

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