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01.10.2015 | Book Review
VOICES IN THE BAND: A DOCTOR, HER PATIENTS, AND HOW THE OUTLOOK ON AIDS CHANGED FROM DOOMED TO HOPEFUL
By Susan C. Ball. 251 pp. New York: Cornell University Press, 2015. Hardcover: Alkaline paper. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-5362-5
verfasst von:
Pat Fosarelli, M.D., D.Min.
Erschienen in:
Journal of Religion and Health
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Ausgabe 5/2015
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Excerpt
For a good part of the 1990s, I had the privilege of serving as a staff physician in a clinic devoted to HIV-infected or affected children and their families. There were days when I wanted to cry and days when I wanted to laugh; sometimes, these coincided. There were days when I was frustrated by some parents’ neglect (as far as their children’s illness was concerned) and days when I was awestruck by the grit and determination of other parents in their efforts to ensure their children’s level of health. There were days when I teetered on being defeated by the massive adverse social factors impacting my patients and their families, and days when I was the one who was lifted by the spirit of children and their families. …