Gardening in clay: reflections on AIDS

"I don't think there's anything worse than having to watch someone you love die." Writing both as a physician fighting the spread of AIDS and as a brother living with the loss of his twin to the disease, Ronald O. Valdiserri faces the epidemic with clarity and compassion. Gardeni...

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1. Verfasser: Valdiserri, Ronald O. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca u.a. Cornell Univ. Press 1994
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Zusammenfassung:"I don't think there's anything worse than having to watch someone you love die." Writing both as a physician fighting the spread of AIDS and as a brother living with the loss of his twin to the disease, Ronald O. Valdiserri faces the epidemic with clarity and compassion. Gardening in Clay is the testimony of a doctor who saw AIDS emerge from the remote pages of medical journals to become the killer of his own brother
In a sequence of brief essays reflecting on personal loss with unprecedented insight into the social circumstances of the AIDS epidemic, the author illuminates a path from private anguish to public urgency
Valdiserri's observations about the blindness of fear and prejudice surrounding AIDS in the United States need to be heard everywhere. Deeply aware of the worth of each life sacrificed, he writes with conviction about the emptiness of viewing illness as a failure of individual responsibility, about the necessity that AIDS be perceived as "our" disease rather than "theirs," and about the validity - and the power - of rage
Beschreibung:X, 107 S.
ISBN:0801429811

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