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Record Nr.

UNINA9911137073103321

Autore

Oppenheimer Gerald M.

Titolo

Shattered dreams? : an oral history of the South African AIDS epidemic / / Gerald M. Oppenheimer, Ronald Bayer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007

ISBN

0-19-029455-8

0-19-971912-8

1-281-16333-3

1-4356-0957-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 pages) : map

Altri autori (Persone)

BayerRonald

Disciplina

614.5/9939200968

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) - South Africa - History

Oral history - South Africa

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - history

HIV Infections - history

Disease Outbreaks - history

History, 20th Century

Nurses

Physicians

Interview

Personal Narrative

Interviews.

Personal narratives.

South Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-245) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: AIDS and the Legacies of Apartheid; 1. The Forgotten Epidemic; 2. Facing AIDS: Denial, Indifference, and Fear; 3. The Burdens of AIDS: Treatment and Its Discontents; 4. Limited Access; 5. Defiance: Creating Islands of Treatment; 6. New Beginnings?

Sommario/riassunto

Based on extended interviews with almost 90 doctors and nurses, 'Shattered Dreams?' is an oral history of how physicians and nurses in



South Africa struggled to contend with the world's most catastrophic AIDS epidemic.