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This book explores the consequences of the intense awareness of mortality — or, to use another term, finitude — for the affected individuals’ self-construction. How, I will ask, can the irruption of finitude into a person’s life be dealt with at the level of self-definition? And how can the effect of that irruption on one’s self-definition be taken into account retrospectively?
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Rinken, S. (2000). HIV and the Self. In: The AIDS Crisis and the Modern Self. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9502-5_1
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