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

Shattered Dreams: An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic
ISBN-10
0199719128
ISBN-13
9780199719129
Series
Shattered Dreams
Category
Medical
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
2007-06-04
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Authors
Ronald Bayer, Gerald M. Oppenheimer

Description

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, this book captures the experience of health care workers as they confronted indifference from colleagues, opposition from superiors, unexpected resistance from the country's political leaders, and material scarcity that was both the legacy of Apartheid and a consequence of the global power of the international pharmaceutical industry.

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