Gerald M Oppenheimer: 2 books
AIDS Doctors
Voices from the Epidemic: An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2002
Today, AIDS has been indelibly etched in our consciousness. Yet it was less than twenty years ago that doctors confronted a sudden avalanche of strange, inexplicable, seemingly untreatable conditions that signaled the arrival of a devastating new disease. Bewildered, unprepared, and pushed to the...
Shattered Dreams
An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007
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 centers of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban-but from provincial centers and rural villages,...