AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic

AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic

Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016. 310p., bibliog., index. ISBN 0-19-512681-5. $27.50.
Ronald Bayer, Gerald M. Oppenheimer. 2000.

This is an especially interesting book that has captured "an important perspective on the epidemic's course before it is lost, to preserve the memory of a long and dreadful period for those who may come to look back, uncomprehendingly, on what it was to be a doctor caring for those afflicted by AIDS in the epidemic's first two decades." The book is about those doctors who chose to care for patients with AIDS in a time when some doctors turned their patients away because of AIDS.

Some 76 doctors were interviewed from New York, Newark, Boston, Washington, Baltimore, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Cleveland, Chicago, Seattle, Las Vegas, Rochester, Austin, and Houston. This is a book about respect for those doctors who were selfless and self-serving and how AIDS transformed their ordinary lives because of their involvement with a medical challenge none could ever have imagined. It is a moving book that one will pick up and read either cover to cover or in bits and pieces. This is a book about dedication and a sincere interest in helping those with HIV/AIDS. It is a must book for all academic and medical libraries and a necessary book for all public libraries in large metropolitan areas.

Keywords: History; Oral History; Biography
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