Someone Was Here Profiles in the AIDS Epidemic eBook George Whitmore
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Three powerful profiles of men and women whose lives were changed forever by the AIDS epidemic
But George Whitmore - like many others - died before the "cocktails" of the mid to late 1990's "tamed" the disease. In the mid-1980's, Whitmore wrote a series on AIDS patients, which then led to a longer book called, "Someone Was Here: Profiles in the AIDS Epidemic". The book has been reissued in e-version a few years ago, but as I read it now, I remembered reading it first when it was originally published. Whitmore picks gay men and intravenous drug users to write about and looks at how the epidemic was handled in New York City, San Francisco, and in America's Heartland, Colorado. But he doesn't look at how the disease was handled on a governmental level - but rather on a personal level. And that personal level includes the patient as well as his or her family and care givers. Whitmore's most vivid writing is of the care and patients at a hospital in an Hispanic neighborhood, where those suffering from AIDS were either gay or drug addicts. Or their families as AIDS, even in the 1980's, was becoming a family disease as husbands infected wives and mothers infected children at birth. His writing is vivid and visceral and he brings the reader to the bedsides of the dying and into the hearts of those who loved and cared for them.
I wrote that David France's book was not an easy read. Neither is George Whitmore's book. I can't begin to know how he felt as he watched others around him die of the same disease that would take him a few years later. His book is to be admired, both on a personal and professional level.
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Fundamental reading. Hard to compare to anything I've read on the subject.
I wish there were more such books and a younger generation were more interested.
A realistic picture of what we knew, and more importantly what we didn’t know in the 1980s about AIDS. Real visceral details. Accurate. I am a nurse from. That era writing my own memoir and cherishing the words of another author who was spot on! Thank you for being here
George Whitmore was a New York City-based author who wrote on contemporary issues. He was gay and he died of AIDS in 1989 at the age of 43. This was the time when the AIDS diagnosis was an almost-certain death sentence. It would be a few years, yet, until medical advances made the disease treatable. (For an outstanding look at how these advances were made, read David France's excellent book, "How to Survive a Plague The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS".)
But George Whitmore - like many others - died before the "cocktails" of the mid to late 1990's "tamed" the disease. In the mid-1980's, Whitmore wrote a series on AIDS patients, which then led to a longer book called, "Someone Was Here Profiles in the AIDS Epidemic". The book has been reissued in e-version a few years ago, but as I read it now, I remembered reading it first when it was originally published. Whitmore picks gay men and intravenous drug users to write about and looks at how the epidemic was handled in New York City, San Francisco, and in America's Heartland, Colorado. But he doesn't look at how the disease was handled on a governmental level - but rather on a personal level. And that personal level includes the patient as well as his or her family and care givers. Whitmore's most vivid writing is of the care and patients at a hospital in an Hispanic neighborhood, where those suffering from AIDS were either gay or drug addicts. Or their families as AIDS, even in the 1980's, was becoming a family disease as husbands infected wives and mothers infected children at birth. His writing is vivid and visceral and he brings the reader to the bedsides of the dying and into the hearts of those who loved and cared for them.
I wrote that David France's book was not an easy read. Neither is George Whitmore's book. I can't begin to know how he felt as he watched others around him die of the same disease that would take him a few years later. His book is to be admired, both on a personal and professional level.
Someone Was Here Profiles in the AIDS Epidemic eBook George Whitmore
George Whitmore was a New York City-based author who wrote on contemporary issues. He was gay and he died of AIDS in 1989 at the age of 43. This was the time when the AIDS diagnosis was an almost-certain death sentence. It would be a few years, yet, until medical advances made the disease treatable. (For an outstanding look at how these advances were made, read David France's excellent book, "How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS".)But George Whitmore - like many others - died before the "cocktails" of the mid to late 1990's "tamed" the disease. In the mid-1980's, Whitmore wrote a series on AIDS patients, which then led to a longer book called, "Someone Was Here: Profiles in the AIDS Epidemic". The book has been reissued in e-version a few years ago, but as I read it now, I remembered reading it first when it was originally published. Whitmore picks gay men and intravenous drug users to write about and looks at how the epidemic was handled in New York City, San Francisco, and in America's Heartland, Colorado. But he doesn't look at how the disease was handled on a governmental level - but rather on a personal level. And that personal level includes the patient as well as his or her family and care givers. Whitmore's most vivid writing is of the care and patients at a hospital in an Hispanic neighborhood, where those suffering from AIDS were either gay or drug addicts. Or their families as AIDS, even in the 1980's, was becoming a family disease as husbands infected wives and mothers infected children at birth. His writing is vivid and visceral and he brings the reader to the bedsides of the dying and into the hearts of those who loved and cared for them.
I wrote that David France's book was not an easy read. Neither is George Whitmore's book. I can't begin to know how he felt as he watched others around him die of the same disease that would take him a few years later. His book is to be admired, both on a personal and professional level.
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Someone Was Here Profiles in the AIDS Epidemic eBook George Whitmore Reviews
Fundamental reading. Hard to compare to anything I've read on the subject.
I wish there were more such books and a younger generation were more interested.
A realistic picture of what we knew, and more importantly what we didn’t know in the 1980s about AIDS. Real visceral details. Accurate. I am a nurse from. That era writing my own memoir and cherishing the words of another author who was spot on! Thank you for being here
George Whitmore was a New York City-based author who wrote on contemporary issues. He was gay and he died of AIDS in 1989 at the age of 43. This was the time when the AIDS diagnosis was an almost-certain death sentence. It would be a few years, yet, until medical advances made the disease treatable. (For an outstanding look at how these advances were made, read David France's excellent book, "How to Survive a Plague The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS".)
But George Whitmore - like many others - died before the "cocktails" of the mid to late 1990's "tamed" the disease. In the mid-1980's, Whitmore wrote a series on AIDS patients, which then led to a longer book called, "Someone Was Here Profiles in the AIDS Epidemic". The book has been reissued in e-version a few years ago, but as I read it now, I remembered reading it first when it was originally published. Whitmore picks gay men and intravenous drug users to write about and looks at how the epidemic was handled in New York City, San Francisco, and in America's Heartland, Colorado. But he doesn't look at how the disease was handled on a governmental level - but rather on a personal level. And that personal level includes the patient as well as his or her family and care givers. Whitmore's most vivid writing is of the care and patients at a hospital in an Hispanic neighborhood, where those suffering from AIDS were either gay or drug addicts. Or their families as AIDS, even in the 1980's, was becoming a family disease as husbands infected wives and mothers infected children at birth. His writing is vivid and visceral and he brings the reader to the bedsides of the dying and into the hearts of those who loved and cared for them.
I wrote that David France's book was not an easy read. Neither is George Whitmore's book. I can't begin to know how he felt as he watched others around him die of the same disease that would take him a few years later. His book is to be admired, both on a personal and professional level.
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