Aids Doctors
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Aids Doctors
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Author : Ronald Bayer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2002-05-16
Aids Doctors written by Ronald Bayer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-16 with Medical categories.
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.
Aids And The Doctors Of Death
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Author : Alan Cantwell
language : en
Publisher: Aries Rising Press
Release Date : 1988
Aids And The Doctors Of Death written by Alan Cantwell and has been published by Aries Rising Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Medical categories.
Good Doctors Good Patients
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Author : Judith G. Rabkin
language : en
Publisher: Ncm Publishers, Incorporated
Release Date : 1994
Good Doctors Good Patients written by Judith G. Rabkin and has been published by Ncm Publishers, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Medical categories.
Written by prominent experts in the field of AIDS care provision, this book is an excellent resource for HIV-infected people as well as the many individuals affected by HIV, including physicians, other health care providers, service providers, family, loved ones, partners, & friends. Based on extensive interviews with people with AIDS, the book explores the dynamics of a good working relationship between the patient & physician. It also addresses the realities of late-stage illness & identifies important issues faced by long-term survivors & their loved ones. According to Daniel C. William, MD, Columbia University, "The book has a scholarly thoroughness that remains surprisingly readable...the detailed analysis provides excellent insights into this subject." Michael Shernoff, MSW, Hunter College Graduate School of Social Work, calls it "a remarkable compilation of information that is easily read & certain to be sought after for a long time to come. It is bound to become a classic volume." Available to libraries free of charge. Only postage & handling required. To order, contact NCM Publishers, Inc., Dept. JL, 200 Varick St., New York, NY 10014.
Plague Years
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Author : Ross A. Slotten
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-07-15
Plague Years written by Ross A. Slotten and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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
My Own Country
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Author : Abraham Verghese
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-11-15
My Own Country written by Abraham Verghese and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-15 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Impatient Dr Lange
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Author : Seema Yasmin
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2018-09-03
The Impatient Dr Lange written by Seema Yasmin and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A powerful tribute to one of the greatest scientists, activists, humanitarians, and social entrepreneurs in the world of HIV/AIDS. When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in July 2014, the world wondered if a cure for HIV had disappeared. Seated in the plane’s business-class cabin was Joseph Lange, better known as Joep, a shrewd Dutch doctor who had revolutionized the world of HIV and AIDS and was working on a cure. Dr. Lange graduated from medical school in 1981, right as a new plague swept across the globe. He studied ways to battle HIV and prevent its spread from mother to child. Fighting the injustices of poverty, Lange advocated for better access to health care for the poor and the vulnerable. He championed the drug cocktail that finally helped rein in the disease and was a vocal proponent of prophylactic treatment for those most at risk of contracting HIV. The Impatient Dr. Lange is the story of one man’s struggle against a global pandemic—and the tragic attack that may have slowed down the search for a cure. Seema Yasmin draws on written records, medical journals, recorded discussions, expert testimony, and extensive interviews with Lange’s family, friends, and colleagues around the globe—including the people he spoke to in the days before he died. She faithfully reconstructs key scenes from Lange’s life and the history of the AIDS epidemic, revealing how Lange became a global leader in the fight against AIDS. “A thrilling history of the investigation of one of the greatest plagues in human history.” —Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
My Epidemic An Aids Memoir Of One Man S Struggle As Doctor Patient And Survivor
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Author : Andrew M. Faulk M. D.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-29
My Epidemic An Aids Memoir Of One Man S Struggle As Doctor Patient And Survivor written by Andrew M. Faulk M. D. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Working With Women And Aids
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Author : Judy Bury
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-08-26
Working With Women And Aids written by Judy Bury and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-26 with Medical categories.
Women now account for one third of the ten million people with HIV infection worldwide. Yet until very recently most services were geared towards men, and doctors and other professionals were often unprepared for the particular issues that women would raise. Working with Women and AIDS provides a unique and readable combination of up-to-date medical information, a discussion of social issues, personal accounts and practical advice about ways of working with women affected by HIV and AIDS. Written by people working in the field, the book explores issues such as contraception, pregnancy and prostitution, which are of central concern to those involved in the care of the increasing number of women affected by HIV infection and AIDS.
Voices In The Band
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Author : Susan C. Ball
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-05
Voices In The Band written by Susan C. Ball and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This unsentimental but moving memoir of bridges two distinct periods in the history of the AIDS epidemic: the terrifying early years in which a diagnosis was a death sentence and ignorance too often eclipsed compassion, and the introduction of antiviral therapies that transformed AIDS into a chronic, though potentially manageable, disease.
A Cure Too Far
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Author : Mugyenyi, Peter
language : en
Publisher: Fountain Publishers
Release Date : 2013-12-07
A Cure Too Far written by Mugyenyi, Peter and has been published by Fountain Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-07 with Medical categories.
A Cure Too Far takes the reader back to the bleak time in Africa when doctors stood by helplessly and watched in horror as their distraught patients were hijacked by a ragtag army of cocky healers. It describes an obstacle-strewn struggle to stop peddlers of fake AIDS drugs and other detractors while trying to find a scientifically proven solution to alleviate the carnage. This story is informed by incredible personal accounts of individuals who played different roles in the war for survival, and of those who found the agony too much to bear, as the relentless scourge ripped apart thousands of years of cultural practices. Even when hope appeared in January 2003, through the President's Emergancy Programme for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a devastating financial crunch hit, threatening to undo all that had been achieved!