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AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic - An Oral History
By (author) Ronald Bayer, By (author) Gerald M. Oppenheimer
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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 end of the 1990s, 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.
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Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc
Published date | 1 Aug 2000
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 320
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 596g
ISBN | 978-0-1951-2681-5
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BISAC | medical / aids & hiv
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