Small, Good Thing: Stories of Children with HIV and Those Who Care for Them

Small, Good Thing: Stories of Children with HIV and Those Who Care for Them

W. W. Norton, 500 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10110. 286p., bibliog. ISBN 0-393-04944-2. $23.95.
by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins. 2000.

There have been many books written by physicians about their adult patients such as Abraham Verghese's My Own Country, Abigail Zuger's Strong Shadows, Peter Selwyn's Surviving the Fall, and Daniel Baxter's The Least of These My Brethren. There have not been any written about the children that physicians and caregivers have cared for. This is the book about those young and courageous people. The book contains six extended narratives. "Each begins with a vignette of a clinic visit, a reconstruction of conversations and events based on lengthy notes I took during the actual visit." These are stories about children with HIV and their caregivers. They are moving stories that make you wonder why this dreadful virus has decided to raise its ugly head and infect young people such as it has. It is a book that anyone who has doubts about why we are spending so much money on research should read and re-read. Maybe they will then understand what it is to be like to have the virus that Angelina Morales has or Carlos or Tommy Wheeler or Alyssa. This is a highly recommended book for all school and public libraries and a research source for academic libraries.

Keywords: Children; Patients; Biography; Popular Works)
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