The biography of an epidemic an oral history of doctors and AIDS
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| Description | Mr. Poppke opens this lecture with a few personal reflections on his experiences working in the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. He then introduces the speakers, Dr. Gerald Oppenheimer and Dr. Ronald Bayer. Dr. Oppenheimer begins by discussing the origins of his and Dr. Bayer's book, AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic, which is the genesis of the current lecture. In an effort to document early AIDS diagnosis and treatment and the challenges faced by medical providers and patients alike, the authors collected personal and professional reminiscences from 76 doctors, interviewied for an average of four hours each. This oral history archive is now located at Columbia University. The authors asked doctors why they chose to work with AIDS patients and sought descriptions of the issues physicians confronted, including institutional indifference or hostility, homophobia, and ambivalence and fear on the part of the doctors thems |
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| Source | collections.nlm.nih.gov |
| Author | Bayer, Ronald., Oppenheimer, Gerald M., National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
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Attribution: Bayer, Ronald., Oppenheimer, Gerald M., National Library of Medicine (U.S.)