Shattered Dreams An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic

Name: Shattered Dreams An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic
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ISBN: 9780195307306

ISBN-10: 0195307305

ISBN-13: 9780195307306

Edition: 2007

Authors: Gerald M. Oppenheimer, Ronald Bayer

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On April 27th, 1994, the people of South Africa voted in their first democratic election, bringing down the curtain on 46 years of Apartheid. But, at the very moment of transition, the seeds of a grave epidemic had already been sown. AIDS has indelibly marked the era since the Apartheid's end, exacting an enormous toll on South Africa's Black community. Since the epidemic's onset, more thean 1,000,000 men, women and children have died.Shattered Dreams? is an oral history of how physicians and nurses in South Africa struggled to ride the tiger of the world's most catastrophic AIDS epidemic. Based on interviews - not only from the great urban centres of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban -…

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List price: $59.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/4/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 9.53" wide x 6.61" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Introduction: AIDS and the Legacies of Apartheid



The Forgotten Epidemic



Facing AIDS: Denial, Indifference, and Fear



The Burdens of AIDS: Treatment and Its Discontents



Limited Access



Defiance: Creating Islands of Treatment



New Beginnings?


Notes


Biographical Notes


Index