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Author : Alan Cantwell
Publisher : Aries Rising Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0917211251
Author : Ronald Bayer,Gerald M. Oppenheimer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190288211
Today, AIDS has been indelibly etched in our consciousness. Yet it was less than twenty years ago that doctors confronted a sudden avalanche of strange, inexplicable, seemingly untreatable conditions that signaled the arrival of a devastating new disease. Bewildered, unprepared, and pushed to the limit of their diagnostic abilities, a select group of courageous physicians nevertheless persevered. This unique collective memoir tells their story. Based on interviews with nearly eighty doctors whose lives and careers have centered on the AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s to the present, this candid, emotionally textured account details the palpable anxiety in the medical profession as it experienced a rapid succession of cases for which there was no clinical history. The physicians interviewed chronicle the roller coaster experiences of hope and despair, as they applied newly developed, often unsuccessful therapies. Yet these physicians who chose to embrace the challenge confronted more than just the sense of therapeutic helplessness in dealing with a disease they could not conquer. They also faced the tough choices inherent in treating a controversial, sexually and intravenously transmitted illness as many colleagues simply walked away. Many describe being gripped by a sense of mission: by the moral imperative to treat the disempowered and despised. Nearly all describe a common purpose, an esprit de corps that bound them together in a terrible yet exhilarating war against an invisible enemy. This extraordinary oral history forms a landmark effort in the understanding of the AIDS crisis. Carefully collected and eloquently told, the doctors' narratives reveal the tenacity and unquenchable optimism that has paved the way for taming a 20th-century plague.
Author : Robert Ariss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781134387052
Robert Ariss - activist and academic - had a unique vision of HIV/AIDS. As an HIV seropositive individual for many years before his death on May 9, 1994, he was a full participant in, and critic of, the development of the gay community's response to the HIV epidemic both in Australia and internationally. Though Ariss' life is a definite presence in this study, Against Death: The Practice of Living with AIDS is not an autobiography. Instead, it is a unique and critical account of a public health crisis, a community's response, and the politics of sexuality. It was in Sydney, Australia, world-famous for its Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, that Robert Ariss lived and worked. It is his vision of that community - of its members infected with and affected by HIV - which is documented in this remarkable anthropological study. Yet the study's implications reach beyond Sydney to all communities living with HIV and AIDS.
Author : Kate Scannell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1732571422
DEATH OF THE GOOD DOCTOR-LESSONS FROM THE HEART OF THE AIDS EPIDEMIC A physician's memoir Kate Scannell abandoned her academic career in 1985 expecting to enter an "ordinary" medical practice in Northern California. Instead, the thirty-two-year-old physician found herself assigned to an Alameda county hospital's AIDS ward where much of the medicine she had studied over many difficult years was rendered irrelevant. Working with AIDS patients, nearly all of whom were dying, Scannell discovered the inadequacy of the "good doctor" who battles illness to keep patients alive regardless of their suffering. By embracing her patients' unique needs and stories, Scannell reached an expanded understanding of her patients and of herself as a physician.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0934803676
Author : Ross A. Slotten
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226718934
In this medical memoir, a gay physician recounts his experiences treating HIV/AIDS during the height of the pandemic in Chicago. In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten signed more death certificates in Chicago—and, by inference, the state of Illinois—than anyone else. As a family physician, he was trained to care for patients from birth to death, but when he completed his residency in 1984, he had no idea that many of his future patients would be cut down in the prime of their lives. Among those patients were friends, colleagues, and lovers, shunned by most of the medical community because they were gay and HIV positive. Slotten wasn’t an infectious disease specialist, but because of his unique position as both a gay man and a young physician, he became an unlikely pioneer, swept up in one of the worst epidemics in modern history. Plague Years is an unprecedented first-person account of that epidemic, spanning not just the city of Chicago but four continents as well. Slotten provides an intimate yet comprehensive view of the disease’s spread alongside heartfelt portraits of his patients and his own conflicted feelings as a medical professional, drawn from more than thirty years of personal notebooks. In telling the story of someone who was as much a potential patient as a doctor, Plague Years sheds light on the darkest hours in the history of the LGBT community in ways that no previous medical memoir has. Praise for Plague Years “Plague Years is a remarkable book. At once the story of a disease and a very personal and reflective memoir, 200-some pages written in a powerful narrative style at once artful and enlightening. . . . There are many truths in this stunning and important book. And there’s also hope.” —Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune “A plainspoken memoir of the AIDS onslaught by a doctor whose life and career have been spent fighting back at it, Plague Years is humane, harrowing, and—eventually, mercifully, guardedly—hopeful. It was not an easy thing for me to return to the Chicago of those early years of increasing anxiety and fear—who knows how many times Dr. Slotten and I may have unknowingly crossed paths?—but this is an important account, and well worth your time.” —Benjamin Dreyer, New York Times–bestselling author of Dreyer’s English
Author : Peter A. Selwyn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300082762
Annotation This poignant and eloquent book is a memoir of the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, written by a physician whose encounters with his dying patients allowed him to come to terms with his own losses, history, and family secrets. It is a story with an important message for anyone dealing with the challenges of living, dying, and being human.
Author : Abraham Verghese
Publisher : BookRags
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Roger Magnusson,Roger S. Magnusson
Publisher : Melbourne University Publish
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0522849709
Public discussion of euthanasia and assisted suicide is growing. In Australia as elsewhere the debate is difficult, contentious and confronting, and hampered by the secrecy that necessarily surrounds illegal practice. Most people simply have no way of knowing how, and how often, medically assisted death actually occurs. Roger Magnusson presents, for the first time, detailed first-hand accounts by doctors, nurses, therapists and other health professionals who have been participants in assisted death. All have been intimately involved in caring for people with AIDS, both in Australia and in California. He places these ambivalent, self-incriminating accounts within the broader context of the right-to-die debate and the challenges of palliative care. The frankness of the health workers and the richness of their collected evidence set this book apart. From within a culture of deception they speak knowingly and movingly of the merciful release of a peaceful death, while acknowledging the reality of 'botched attempts', euthanasia without consent, precipitative euthanasia, lack of accountability and professional distance, and many other disturbing issues. Angels of Death provides a window into the 'euthanasia underground'-a secret part of medicine and nursing that few professionals will publicly acknowledge. It brings a sense of urgency and precision to public debate, and equips us all to think more independently about these crucial issues.
Author : Ross A. Slotten, MD
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226718767
In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten signed more death certificates in Chicago—and, by inference, the state of Illinois—than anyone else. As a family physician, he was trained to care for patients from birth to death, but when he completed his residency in 1984, he had no idea that many of his future patients would be cut down in the prime of their lives. Among those patients were friends, colleagues, and lovers, shunned by most of the medical community because they were gay and HIV positive. Slotten wasn’t an infectious disease specialist, but because of his unique position as both a gay man and a young physician, he became an unlikely pioneer, swept up in one of the worst epidemics in modern history. Plague Years is an unprecedented first-person account of that epidemic, spanning not just the city of Chicago but four continents as well. Slotten provides an intimate yet comprehensive view of the disease’s spread alongside heartfelt portraits of his patients and his own conflicted feelings as a medical professional, drawn from more than thirty years of personal notebooks. In telling the story of someone who was as much a potential patient as a doctor, Plague Years sheds light on the darkest hours in the history of the LGBT community in ways that no previous medical memoir has.
Author : Abraham Verghese
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476760469
The memoir and first book from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller Cutting for Stone. Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had once seemed an “urban problem” had arrived in the town to stay. Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases. Dr. Verghese became by necessity the local AIDS expert, soon besieged by a shocking number of male and female patients whose stories came to occupy his mind, and even take over his life. Verghese brought a singular perspective to Johnson City: as a doctor unique in his abilities; as an outsider who could talk to people suspicious of local practitioners; above all, as a writer of grace and compassion who saw that what was happening in this conservative community was both a medical and a spiritual emergency. Out of his experience comes a startling but ultimately uplifting portrait of the American heartland as it confronts—and surmounts—its deepest prejudices and fears.
Author : Andrew M. Faulk M. D.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1733429115
When young Dr. Andrew Faulk first learned he was HIV positive, he was so stunned it took him an hour to find his car, which was parked in front of the clinic.Then when driving home he heard on the radio that Rock Hudson had just died of AIDS. That day, without warning, he faced the great divide of his life. Until then, he'd been an outstanding young physician after long years of intensive training. But, while he stayed in the closet with his colleagues, it seemed the growing epidemic was stalking him. As a medical student he'd seen his first case of AIDS. Then, as an intern in San Francisco he'd seen the cases multiply. Now that he himself was positive, when no life-saving treatments were available, he considered quitting the profession to which he'd dedicated his life--since that life seemed sure to end soon. Instead he chose to keep his status secret and be the best doctor he could be, for as long as possible. Treating more and more AIDS patients in San Francisco, then joining two other doctors in an overwhelmed office in LA, Andrew discovered something other doctors didn't experience. In every patient he cared for, whatever the symptoms, he saw himself; the afflictions that could assault him at any time. He dealt courageously with riveting case after case, even witnessing "goodbye parties," even losing a young lover in the onslaught. While not religious he was very spiritual and respected whatever brought peace and comfort to those he called "my guys." Eventually his health began to fail, but quitting his practice saved his life. After a long silence he began to recount those heroic years and tell this, his true story as a doctor, patient, and survivor.
Author : Michael Saag
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781626340657
A Memoir and a ManifestoPositive traces the life of Michael S. Saag, MD, an internationally known expert on the virus that causes AIDS, but the book is more than a memoir: through his story, Dr. Saag also shines a light on the dysfunctional US healthcare system, proposing optimistic yet realistic remedies drawn from his distinguished medical career.Mike Saag began his medical residency in 1981, within days of the Centers for Disease Control’s first report of a mysterious “gay cancer” killing young men. Soon, the young doctor’s career was yoked to the epidemic. His life’s work became turning the most deadly virus in human history into a chronic, manageable disease.In the lab at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dr. Saag and colleagues made seminal early discoveries about the elusive virus. And at the AIDS clinic he founded, Dr. Saag met people whose fight against a virtual death sentence touched his heart and inspired him to work even harder. As his career stretched across three decades, Dr. Saag found himself battling another foe, this one almost as pernicious as AIDS itself: a broken healthcare system shaped more by politicians, insurers, and lobbyists than by patients’ needs.Positive is Dr. Saag’s tribute to the unforgettable patients he has known and an urgent call to create a comprehensive, compassionate, accessible healthcare system in the name of those we can save today.
Author : Andrew J. Skerritt
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781569769577
By focusing on a small town in South Carolina, this study of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the South reveals the hard truths of an ongoing and complex issue. Skerritt contends that the United States has failed to adequately address the threat of HIV and AIDS in communities of color and that taboos about love, race, and sexualitycombined with Southern conservatism, white privilege, and black oppressioncontinue to create an unacceptable death toll. The heartbreak of Americas failure comes alive through case studies of individuals such as Carolyn, a wild child whose rebellion coincided with the advent of AIDS, and Nita, a young woman searching for love and trapped in an abusive relationship. The results are most visible at the towns segregated burial ground where dozens of young black men and women who have died from AIDS are laid to rest. Not only a call to action and awareness, this is a true story of how persons of faith, enduring love, and limitless forgiveness can inspire others by serving as guides for poor communities facing a public health threat burdened with conflicting moral and social conventions.
Author : Christine Maggiore
Publisher : American Foundation for AIDS Alternatives
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0967415322
A simple and authoritative challenge to the conventional wisdom about AIDS, this newly revised book probes widely held assumptions about the risks, tests, and treatments associated with this controversial disease. The ideas of the general public—that everyone is at risk, that AIDS is widespread, that HIV is proven to cause AIDS, and that drug treatments or vaccines offer the only hope to resolve health problems associated with AIDS—are refuted, and new information is presented on AIDS in Africa and recent research on the effects of AZT, protease inhibitors, and combo cocktails. A recommended reading list and website directory supply tools for further study, and first-person accounts from naturally healthy HIV-positive men, women, and children give the facts a human face.
