num_pages: 352
description: A doctor who works with people with AIDS daily offers a look at the impact of AIDS on a small Tennessee town, as townspeople respond to the disease's presence
language: English
title: My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of Aids
titlecomplete: My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of Aids
genres: Autobiography, Medical, History, Biography Memoir, Biography, Medicine, Science, Health, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 11645
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Biography/Autobiography, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Simon & Schuster