Co-conspirator for justice : the revolutionary life of Dr. Alan Berkman / Susan M. Reverby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reverby, Susan M., 1946- author.

Series:

Justice, power, and politics.

North Carolina scholarship online.

Justice, power, and politics

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicians--United States--Biography.

Physicians.

AIDS activists--United States--Biography.

AIDS activists.

Berkman, Alan.

Berkman, Alan--Political activity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Summary:

Alan Berkman (1945-2009) was no campus radical in the mid-1960s; he was a promising Ivy League student, football player, Eagle Scout, and fraternity president. But when he was a medical student and doctor, his politics began to change, and soon he was providing covert care to members of revolutionary groups like the Weather Underground and becoming increasingly radicalized by his experiences at the Wounded Knee takeover, at the Attica Prison uprising, and at health clinics for the poor. When the government went after him, he went underground and participated in bombings of government buildings. He was eventually captured and served eight years in some of America's worst penitentiaries, barely surviving two rounds of cancer. After his release in 1992, he returned to medical practice and became an HIV/AIDS physician, teacher, and global health activist.

Contents:

Prologue: children of the Holocaust and Cold War

Part 1: Eagle Scout, fraternity president, doctor. Preview: remembering

Born strong without fear

The other 1960s student

Dr. Salk or Dr. Lenin

Political medicine

Part 2: Into the struggle. Preview: the future

Revolutionary road

The left of the left

Creating life, choosing love

Violence, death, and their consequences

Clandestine actions

Part 3: Life and near death in the American gulag. Preview: The government strikes back

Becoming Brother Doc

Isolation and rethinking

Resistance is not a crime

A conspiracy for life

PART 4: Saving lives: HIV/AIDS and global activism. Preview: breaking the silence

Resurrection and social rage

Confronting global HIV/AIDS

His full self

Coda: to love each other like warriors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2020.

ISBN:

979-88-908593-5-8

1-4696-5627-2

OCLC:

1151723556