My Nerves Are Bad: Puerto Rican Women Managing Mental Illness and HIV Risk

by Sana Loue

Book Overview

Over a two-year period, author Sana Loue and her research team followed the lives of fifty-three Puerto Rican women living with severe mental illness as they coped with daily challenges in the areas of family, romantic relationships, employment, social services, substance use, and health care. The team interviewed the women and shadowed them at their homes, churches, schools, physicians' offices, family events, and other occasions in order to understand...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826517544
• ISBN13: 9780826517548
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"