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Three perspectives -- one truth The victim: After his windshield was shattered with a baseball bat, HIV-positive Alex Crusan ducked under the steering wheel. But he knows what he saw. Now he must decide what he wants to tell. The witness: Daria Bickell never lies. So if she told the police she saw Clinton Cole do it, she must have. But did she really? The suspect: Clinton was seen in the vicinity of... (more)

At Risk

by Alice Hoffman

In a novel the Village Voice calls "memorable" and "striking," Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven-year-old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS... "Brilliant...explosive...heart-rending." --Chicago Tribune "Graceful...emotionally potent...A cathartic tale that begs us, with heartbreaking eloquence, to stop looking the other way." --Glamour "Within pages, the reader falls... (more)

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

by Pearl Cleage

In a remarkable debut novel that sizzles with sensuality, crackles with life-affirming energy and moves the reader to laughter and tears, author Pearl Cleage creates a world rich in character, human drama, and deep, compassionate understanding. After a decade of luxe living in Atlanta, Ava Johnson has returned to tiny Idlewild, Michigan -- her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits on one dark truth: Ava... (more)

Chanda's Secrets

by Allan Stratton

A girl's struggle amid the African AIDS pandemic. "As soon as I get back from the shabeen, I go next door to see Mrs. Tafa. I have to ask to use her phone to let our relatives know about Sara. I'm nervous. Mrs. Tafa would like to run the world. Since she can't run the world she's decided to run our neighborhood." So speaks sixteen-year-old Chanda, an astonishingly perceptive girl living in the small city... (more)

AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame

AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame

by Paul Farmer

Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. First published in 1992 this new edition has been updated and a new preface added.

The Heaven Shop

by Deborah Ellis

There is a lion in our village, and it is carrying away our children. At her father's funeral, Binti's grandmother utters the words that no one in Malawi wants to hear. Binti's father and her mother before him, dies of AIDS. Binti, her sister, and brother are separated and sent to the home of relatives who can barely tolerate their presence. Ostracized by their extended family, the orphans are treated... (more)

28: Stories of AIDS in Africa

by Stephanie Nolen

For the past six years, Stephanie Nolen has traced AIDS across Africa, and 28 is the result: an unprecedented, uniquely human portrait of the continent in crisis. Through riveting, anecdotal stories, she brings to life men, women, and children involved in every AIDS arena, making them familiar. And she explores the effects of an epidemic that well exceeds the Black Plague in scope, and the reasons why we must ... (more)

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

by Randy Shilts

By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this epidemic allowed to spread so far before it was taken seriously? In answering these questions, Shilts weaves weaves the... (more)

We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love

We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love

by James T. Wooten

Award-winning correspondent for ABC World News and Nightline Jim Wooten is a seasoned newsman who has covered tragedy the world over. Now he tells the story of Nkosi Johnson, an eleven-year-old South African boy born with AIDS into poverty in a shantytown and given only a few years to live. But his ailing mother managed to cross her country’s divisions of race and class to bring him to Gail Johnson, who... (more)

No Place Left to Bury the Dead: Denial, Despair and Hope in the African AIDS Pandemic

No Place Left to Bury the Dead: Denial, Despair and Hope in the African AIDS Pandemic

by Nicole Itano

EVERY DAY in Africa, approximately 7,000 men, women, and children are erased from the face of this planet by the devastating AIDS virus that -- even after more than two and a half decades -- continues to wreak havoc around the globe, especially in underdeveloped nations. No Place Left to Bury the Dead dares to go where media, governments, and ordinary individuals in the West seldom venture -- face-to-face with... (more)

28

by Stephanie Nolen

We have all seen the grim pictures of dying Africans on the news, or been momentarily shocked by the statistics; we may think we?ve heard all we need to know ? or can bear to know ? about the story of Aids in Africa. But look beyond the harrowing dispatches and the noisy headlines and something else emerges: not just a single sad story featuring countless, voiceless victims, but many different stories that... (more)

My own country : a doctor's story of a town and its people in the age of AIDS

My own country : a doctor's story of a town and its people in the age of AIDS

by A. Verghese

The first book by a doctor who works with AIDS victims daily offers a revealing look at the impact of AIDS on a small Tennessee town, as townspeople respond to the disease's presence in inspiring ways.

Your Sister Your Brother Your Neighbor Has AIDS

Your Sister Your Brother Your Neighbor Has AIDS

by Rev. Deborah Lake

Spiritual help for HIV/AIDS without judgment or preaching. HIV is still spreading in our community! After a family member is diagnosed with HIV or AIDS you need something besides preaching. This book is the place to start. When we learn that someone has HIV or AIDS it is hard to know where to start. We feel isolated, insignificant, and cut off from God--spiritual distress. We have to deal with these feelings and... (more)

Gendered Epidemic: Representations of Women in the Age of AIDS

Gendered Epidemic: Representations of Women in the Age of AIDS

by Nancy L. Roth

Since nearly the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, activists have signaled the inadequacy of prevention strategies and drug protocols that have been developed from research done primarily on men. The latest C.D.C. figures prove they were right; for the first time since the beginning of the epidemic, AIDS cases among white men have fallen, yet the largest increases are among women. Weaving together theoretical,... (more)

AIDS in Latin America

by Tim Frasca

The first book on the shocking reality of AIDS in Latin AmericaIn this revealing book, the first to give a complete account of how the AIDS epidemic has affected our neighbors to the South, Timothy Frasca uncovers the enormous cultural changes which have taken place throughout Latin America as a result of the disease. He brings issues such as sexuality, class, and religious beliefs into the open for the first... (more)

Last Served?: Gendering the HIV Pandemic (Social Aspects of Aids)

Last Served?: Gendering the HIV Pandemic (Social Aspects of Aids)

by Cindy Patton

Following a decade in which the focus on HIV and AIDS has been on specific social groups, a shift in professional perceptions has resulted in a change in the images of women and HIV/AIDS. Last Served? recognizes and analyzes the trend toward more openly acknowledging and planning for women in the pandemic. Rather than enumerating the effects on women of confused or conflicting policies and representation, the book... (more)

"You're the First One I've Told": New Faces of HIV in the South

"You're the First One I've Told": New Faces of HIV in the South

by Kathryn Whetten-Goldstein

In the second wave of the HIV epidemic, those with the disease are more likely than ever to be female, younger, heterosexual, a racial minority, and rural-living. Vital to the development of user-friendly health care systems is an understanding of the vastly different lives of this second wave of HIV-infected persons. "You're the First One I've Told" offers a view into the lives of men and women infected with HIV.... (more)

Women's Experiences With HIV/Aids: Mending Fractured Selves (Haworth Psychosocial Issues of HIV/AIDS) (Haworth Psychosocial Issues of HIV/AIDS)

Women's Experiences With HIV/Aids: Mending Fractured Selves (Haworth Psychosocial Issues of HIV/AIDS) (Haworth Psychosocial Issues of HIV/AIDS)

by Desir?ee Ciambrone

Brown Univ., Providence, RI. Examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on women. Based on interviews with HIV-infected women, key issues pertinent to living with the infection are highlighted. Also discusses in detail the impact of HIV/AIDS on social and family life. Softcover.

Readings in the Sociology of AIDS

by Charlene Harrington, Allen J. Leblanc, Anthony J., Jr. Lemelle

A Neighborhood Divided: Community Resistance to an AIDS Care Facility (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)

A Neighborhood Divided: Community Resistance to an AIDS Care Facility (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)

by Jane Balin

When a nursing facility for AIDS patients is planned for a city neighborhood, residents might be expected to respond, "Not in my backyard." But, as Jane Balin recounts in A Neighborhood Divided, when that community is known for its racial and ethnic diversity and liberal attitudes, public reaction becomes less predictable and in many ways more important to comprehend. An ethnographer who spent two years... (more)

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by Alex Flinn

by Alice Hoffman

by Pearl Cleage

by Allan Stratton

by Paul Farmer

by Deborah Ellis

by Stephanie Nolen

by Randy Shilts

by James T. Wooten

by Nicole Itano

by Stephanie Nolen

by A. Verghese

by Rev. Deborah Lake

by Nancy L. Roth

by Tim Frasca

by Cindy Patton

by Kathryn Whetten-Goldstein

by Desir?ee Ciambrone

by Charlene Harrington, Allen J. Leblanc, Anthony J., Jr. Lemelle

by Jane Balin