Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. Already a member? Sign in.
|
|||||||||
Better Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
The Least of These My Brethren: A Doctor's Story of Hope and Miracles in an Inner-City AIDS Ward by M.D., Daniel J. Baxter  (6)
$16.00
|
AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic: An Oral History by Ronald Bayer  (3)
$34.50
|
AIDS Memoir: Journal of an HIV-Positive Mother by Catherine Wyatt-Morley
$17.95
|
At Risk by Alice Hoffman (48)
$10.20
|
Troubling The Angels: Women Living With Hiv/aids by Patricia A Lather
$35.00
|
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Selwyn entered his residency at an inner-city Bronx hospital in 1981, just in time for the arrival of AIDS. Medical school had prepared him to be a healer, but in the face of a devastating, incurable disease, he found his most important role was as a "witness and companion." There were certain characteristics of the disease that made it more personal, and in the devastating effects of AIDS on families, Selwyn began to sense parallels with the suicide of his father: "Like AIDS, suicide is something that stigmatizes both those who die and those who survive, something that is shrouded with shame, guilt, and secrecy." Selwyn successfully intertwines his own story with portraits of his most memorable patients, resisting the temptation to turn them into martyrs. He admires drug addicts' "yearning to live intensely in every moment" and eventually, as he becomes more and more obsessed with his work, recognizes that he shares some of their patterns of addictive behavior. As befits a memoir, this book's best moments are the intensely personal ones: Selwyn's secret fear that any weight loss meant the onset of AIDS; his attempt to trace his father's last steps in the building where he died. Selwyn credits his journey through the AIDS epidemic with making him a better doctor, but the healing went both ways as he found a new understanding that would allow him to treat the untended wounds left by his father's death.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Library Journal
This is not so much a book about AIDS as it is the story of a physician's coming to self-understanding by means of his work with AIDS patients. Selwyn, associate director of the AIDS program at Yale, began working with the disease as a new resident. Increasingly consumed by his work and concerned about his patients, he began to recognize that he was becoming less emotionally available to his own family. Selwyn attributes this and other problems to the death of his father, who died suddenly, probably a suicide, when the author was an infant. While Selwyn's profiles of AIDS patients are lovingly and beautifully written, and he paints an involving and realistic picture of the devastating impact of AIDS, readers might wonder at his tendency to attribute virtually every emotion to his father's death. Not an essential purchase, this book will nevertheless appeal to readers interested in AIDS or stories of self-discovery.?Linda Gleason, Univ. of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey Lib., Newark
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
See all Editorial Reviews
Selwyn entered his residency at an inner-city Bronx hospital in 1981, just in time for the arrival of AIDS. Medical school had prepared him to be a healer, but in the face of a devastating, incurable disease, he found his most important role was as a "witness and companion." There were certain characteristics of the disease that made it more personal, and in the devastating effects of AIDS on families, Selwyn began to sense parallels with the suicide of his father: "Like AIDS, suicide is something that stigmatizes both those who die and those who survive, something that is shrouded with shame, guilt, and secrecy." Selwyn successfully intertwines his own story with portraits of his most memorable patients, resisting the temptation to turn them into martyrs. He admires drug addicts' "yearning to live intensely in every moment" and eventually, as he becomes more and more obsessed with his work, recognizes that he shares some of their patterns of addictive behavior. As befits a memoir, this book's best moments are the intensely personal ones: Selwyn's secret fear that any weight loss meant the onset of AIDS; his attempt to trace his father's last steps in the building where he died. Selwyn credits his journey through the AIDS epidemic with making him a better doctor, but the healing went both ways as he found a new understanding that would allow him to treat the untended wounds left by his father's death.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Library Journal
This is not so much a book about AIDS as it is the story of a physician's coming to self-understanding by means of his work with AIDS patients. Selwyn, associate director of the AIDS program at Yale, began working with the disease as a new resident. Increasingly consumed by his work and concerned about his patients, he began to recognize that he was becoming less emotionally available to his own family. Selwyn attributes this and other problems to the death of his father, who died suddenly, probably a suicide, when the author was an infant. While Selwyn's profiles of AIDS patients are lovingly and beautifully written, and he paints an involving and realistic picture of the devastating impact of AIDS, readers might wonder at his tendency to attribute virtually every emotion to his father's death. Not an essential purchase, this book will nevertheless appeal to readers interested in AIDS or stories of self-discovery.?Linda Gleason, Univ. of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey Lib., Newark
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
See all Editorial Reviews
Product Details
|
