Hospital time / Amy Hoffman ; with a foreword by Urvashi Vaid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffman, Amy.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Riegle, Mike--Health.

Riegle, Mike.

AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Biography.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Hospital care.

Caregivers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hospital Time is a memoir about friendship, family, and caregiving in the age of AIDS. Amy Hoffman, a writer, lesbian activist, and former editor of Gay Community News, chronicles with fury and unflinching honesty her experience serving as primary caretaker for her friend and colleague, Mike Riegle, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1992. Hoffman neither idealizes nor deifies Riegle, whom she portrays as a brilliant man, devoted prison rights activist, and very difficult friend.Hoffman became central to Riegle's caregiving when he asked her to be his health-care proxy

Contents:

Introduction: Hospital Time

Living with AIDS Distractions

Too Nice

Going Shopping

The Straight Yoga Class

Mike's Roommate

Mike's Coat

My Art, the Sea

Memphis: Stories Going to Memphis

DNRI

Mike's Laundry

The Plane to Seattle

Ticket Money

Mike Dies and Is DNR II

Laid to Rest Sunday Morning

Mike Dies Peacefully

Obituary

The Great Blue Heron

The Afterlife Calling the Names

Ice Chips

Influences from Beyond the Grave

Kevin and Me

Passover

The Real Family

The Angel of Death

The Sheltering Tree

The Ceiling

The Teddy Bear

Catherine

Six Things I've Inherited

Two Dreams

Walta's Birthday

Mike Eating

Mike's Dick

Conclusion: Kaddish

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613062994

9781283062992

1283062992

9780822383031

0822383039

OCLC:

213455278