Voices in the band
Subtitle: a doctor, her patients, and how the outlook on AIDS care changed from doomed to hopeful
By: Susan C. Ball
Series: The culture and politics of health care work; Culture and politics of health care work
Publisher: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780801453625
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Patients; AIDS (Disease); History
Description: "In 1992, Dr. Susan C. Ball began her medical career taking care of patients with HIV in the Center for Special Studies, a designated AIDS care center at a large academic medical center in New York City. Her unsentimental but moving memoir of her experiences bridges two distinct periods in the history of the epidemic: the terrifying early years in which a diagnosis was a death sentence and ignorance too often eclipsed compassion, and the introduction of antiviral therapies that transformed AIDS into a chronic, though potentially manageable, disease. Voices in the Band also provides a new perspective on how we understand disease and its treatment within the context of teamwork among medical personnel, government agencies and other sources of support, and patients." -- Publisher's website.
Table of contents: title: 1992: Beginning; title: 1992: So much to learn; title: 1992: No easy answers and little to offer; title: 1994: Too many drugs, no medication; title: 1994: Being mindful of the subtext; title: 1994: Weekend on call; title: 1994: Christmas; title: 1995: Another support group; title: 1995: Mothers and children; title: 1995: Decisions and revisions; title: 1995: Colleagues and families; title: 1995: So many stories and some new faces; title: 1996: Some hope in the despair; title: 1996: Hit early, hit hard; title: 1997: Amazing changes; title: 1999: Despite our best intentions; title: 1999: Coping with a different paradigm; title: 2000: Going home.