Voices in the Band : A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful

Voices in the Band A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful

"I am an AIDS doctor. When I began that work in 1992, we knew what caused AIDS, how it spread, and how to avoid getting it, but we didn't know how to treat it or how to prevent our patients' seemingly inevitable progression toward death. The stigma that surrounded AIDS patients from t...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: NEH CARES grant funder (funder)
Other Authors: Ball, Susan C., 1957- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press 2015.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Culture and politics of health care work.
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) > Patients > New York (State) > New York.
AIDS (Disease) > New York (State) > New York > History.
Electronic books.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009649803706719
Table of Contents:
  • 1992: Beginning
  • 1992: So much to learn
  • 1992: No easy answers and little to offer
  • 1994: Too many drugs, no medication
  • 1994: Being mindful of the subtext
  • 1994: Weekend on call
  • 1994: Christmas
  • 1995: Another support group
  • 1995: Mothers and children
  • 1995: Decisions and revisions
  • 1995: Colleagues and families
  • 1995: So many stories and some new faces
  • 1996: Some hope in the despair
  • 1996: Hit early, hit hard
  • 1997: Amazing changes
  • 1999: Despite our best intentions
  • 1999: Coping with a different paradigm
  • 2000: Going home.

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