Title: Voices in the band
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.
Subjects: Patients, AIDS (Disease), History, Aids (disease), united states, Aids (disease), patients, Physician-Patient Relations, Patient Care, History, 20th Century, HIV Infections, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Places: New York (State), New York