AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic: An Oral History

Ronald Bayer, Gerald Oppenheimer

ISBN 10: 0195126815 / ISBN 13: 9780195126815

Published by Oxford University Press, 2000

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VG hardcover in VG jacket. 2000. SIGNED by BOTH AUTHORS on bookplate with no inscription. Pages all clean/unmarked. Light edgewear.Binding solid. Jacket unclipped and clean. Mild edgewear. 310 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic: An Oral History
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195126815
• ISBN 13: 9780195126815
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Ronald Bayer teaches at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.Gerald Oppenheimer teaches at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.