Voices in the Band - A Doctor, Her Patients, How Outlook on Aids Care Changed From Doomed

Klappentext Susan C. Ball is Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and Assistant Director of the Bernbaum Unit! Center for Special Studies! New York-Presbyterian Hospital. As an internist! she has taken care of patients with AIDS for more than twenty years. Zusammenfassung This unsentimental but moving memoir of bridges two distinct periods in the history of the AIDS 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...

Product details

• Authors: Susan C. Ball
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2015
• EAN: 9780801453625
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-5362-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work; Culture and Politics of Health; The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work; Culture and Politics of Health
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies