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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
A humanities professor at the Penn State College of Medicine, Hawkins spent several years observing the staff and patients at a pediatric AIDS clinic in southern Ohio. Here she presents in-depth accounts of six of the families she observed, all with children who were infected with HIV in the womb. Declining to sugarcoat the toll that poverty, drug-addicted or alcoholic parents, incest, abuse and illness has taken on these youngsters, Hawkins still finds in these young lives surprisingly positive stories. Angelina, an 11-year-old from Puerto Rico who has already lived with six different foster families, once nearly died from pneumonia; now, although dealing with psychological problems, she is deeply loved by her current foster family and appears to be thriving. In another case, Esther Hammond and her husband drew on their religious faith for strength to cope with negative reactions from their family and community when they adopted Alyssa and Marie, two HIV-infected children. One key figure appears throughout the narrativeADr. Bennett, the skilled diagnostician who treats the childrenAand emerges as a hero as he fights medical administrators to provide better care for his patients. Moving and inspiring, this book is a thoughtful anecdotal study of a important societal issue. (Aug.)
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From Library Journal
This is a touching and compassionate book about children infected by HIV. Through personal interviews, Hawkins (humanities, Pennsylvania State Coll. of Medicine) shows us the real courage of these children and the extraordinary kindness of the people around them. She also raises an alarming point: HIV infection is not only a result of personal choices, it is an issue threatening our whole society. Especially given advanced pharmacological research, HIV-infected people will live longer and have more children, and these children are likely to live into their adolescence and infect their partners and children. Too often, we see HIV infection as a result of moral failure on the part of infected individuals, but we fail to realize the deeper social issues indirectly causing it: poverty, dysfunctional families, abuse, and lack of education, among many others. This book will change people's attitudes toward HIV infection and awaken our sense of responsibility for HIV-infected people, especially children. Recommended for public and hospital libraries.
-DLily Liu, Arkansas Children's Hosp. Lib., Little Rock
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A humanities professor at the Penn State College of Medicine, Hawkins spent several years observing the staff and patients at a pediatric AIDS clinic in southern Ohio. Here she presents in-depth accounts of six of the families she observed, all with children who were infected with HIV in the womb. Declining to sugarcoat the toll that poverty, drug-addicted or alcoholic parents, incest, abuse and illness has taken on these youngsters, Hawkins still finds in these young lives surprisingly positive stories. Angelina, an 11-year-old from Puerto Rico who has already lived with six different foster families, once nearly died from pneumonia; now, although dealing with psychological problems, she is deeply loved by her current foster family and appears to be thriving. In another case, Esther Hammond and her husband drew on their religious faith for strength to cope with negative reactions from their family and community when they adopted Alyssa and Marie, two HIV-infected children. One key figure appears throughout the narrativeADr. Bennett, the skilled diagnostician who treats the childrenAand emerges as a hero as he fights medical administrators to provide better care for his patients. Moving and inspiring, this book is a thoughtful anecdotal study of a important societal issue. (Aug.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This is a touching and compassionate book about children infected by HIV. Through personal interviews, Hawkins (humanities, Pennsylvania State Coll. of Medicine) shows us the real courage of these children and the extraordinary kindness of the people around them. She also raises an alarming point: HIV infection is not only a result of personal choices, it is an issue threatening our whole society. Especially given advanced pharmacological research, HIV-infected people will live longer and have more children, and these children are likely to live into their adolescence and infect their partners and children. Too often, we see HIV infection as a result of moral failure on the part of infected individuals, but we fail to realize the deeper social issues indirectly causing it: poverty, dysfunctional families, abuse, and lack of education, among many others. This book will change people's attitudes toward HIV infection and awaken our sense of responsibility for HIV-infected people, especially children. Recommended for public and hospital libraries.
-DLily Liu, Arkansas Children's Hosp. Lib., Little Rock
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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