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Sometimes My Heart Goes Numb: Love and Caregiving in a Time of AIDS

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By Charles Garfield, Cindy Spring, Doris Ober — 1997

Drawing on the real-life stories of twenty exemplary caregivers, Dr. Charles Garfield explains the widely used Shanti caregivers model he originated—and shows how to set limits, avoid burnout, accept gratitude, and grapple with issues of life and death when caring for people with HIV/AIDS.

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AIDS, Opium, Diamonds, and Empire

It is a mistake to think that wars only concern armies involved in active engagement. Nothing is farther from the truth. The real forces of evil wage a financial war.

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Nancy Turner Banks
2010
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Tinderbox: How The West Sparked The Aids Epidemic And How The World Can Finally Overcome It

In this groundbreaking narrative, longtime Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise.

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Craig Timberg, Daniel Halperin
2024
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Nurses On The Inside: Stories Of The HIV/AIDS Epidemic In NYC

Nurses On The Inside details the stories of two nurses who witnessed the frontline of the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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Tree District Books, Ellen Matzer, Valery Hughes
2019
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When We Rise: My Life in the Movement

Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were.

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Cleve Jones
2024
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Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993

In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world.

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Sarah Schulman
2021
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Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality

In the face of life-threatening news, how does our view of life change—and what do we do it transform it? Remaking a Life uses the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a lens to understand how women generate radical improvements in their social well-being in the face of social stigma and economic disadvantage.

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Celeste Watkins-Hayes
2019
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The Origins of AIDS

It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients.

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Jacques Pépin
2021
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How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS

A definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, here is the incredible story of the grassroots activists whose work turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease.

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David France
2017
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

Upon its first publication twenty years ago, And the Band Played On was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigative reporting.

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Randy Shilts
2007
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