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Plague years : a doctor's journey through the AIDS crisis / Ross A. Slotten.
LIBRA RA643.84.I3 S568 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slotten, Ross A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease)--Illinois--Chicago.
- AIDS (Disease).
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
- Illinois.
- Chicago.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Medical Subjects:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
- Illinois.
- Chicago.
- Physical Description:
- 214 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "In his gripping memoir, Ross Slotten-one of the earliest doctors to treat AIDS in Chicago-documents how Chicago's gay communities were decimated by confusion, fear, and ultimately despair over the ravaging disease. This tragedy was especially painful for Slotten who, as a gay man himself, treated-and buried-scores of acquaintances, friends, and lovers. Limning powerful portraits of the period, the hospitals, and the community, Slotten is unsentimental about the environment, the brutal treatments, the ghastly suffering, the deaths, and his own uncertainties and fears. He further reminds us that AIDS, while today more easily managed, could all too easily resurge. Slotten's book is both a timely policy warning and a devastating portrait of how a community, a hospital, and a city faced a health crisis of seemingly unmanageable proportions"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- No End in Sight (1992)
- First Cairn (1984)
- Out of the Closet and into the Fire (Before 1983)
- Art's Final Illness (1985)
- The Period at the End of the Sentence (1985)
- Known Knowns (1985)
- The Saga of Stan S. (1986-88)
- The Predator and Prey Within (1991)
- Unstoppable Wildfire (1991-92)
- Dead Men Walking (1992)
- AIDS in Namibia (1992-93)
- AIDS in Berlin (1993)
- Turning Point (1996-2004)
- Transitions (2007-14)
- Epilogue (2016 and Beyond).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780226718767
- 022671876X
- OCLC:
- 1117638093
- Publisher Number:
- 99985017316
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