One life at a time
Subtitle: an American doctor's memoir of AIDS in Botswana
By: Daniel Baxter
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781510735767
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Physicians; Patients; AIDS (Disease); Treatment; Prevention; Biography
Description: "A physician gives voice to the powerful stories of AIDS patients in Botswana."--Jacket flap.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Beginnings; title: First rumblings; title: In the thick of it: "The new face of AIDS"; title: First forays into Africa; title: Part 2: The great experiment begins: Botswana 2002-2008; title: Not a community of Mother Teresa's; title: Crash and burn; title: Learning to dance; title: Outreach 2003: Molepolole; title: Local flora and fauna: "Are you or have you ever been an imbecile?"; title: Holy Cross Hospice; title: Local flora and fauna: "A first-rate country for second-rate people"; title: All part of the package; title: Enough is enough, or Not outstaying your welcome; title: Part 3: American interlude; title: Room 4224; title: Part 4: Botswana, 2013-2015: into the belly of the beast; title: the more things changed...; title: Princess Marina, I; title: Outreach, ten years later; title: Holy Cross Hospice: final lessons; title: Princess Marina, II; title: Final departure.