Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Looking Backward; 1. Discovery and Commitment; 2. The Dark Years: Fear, Impotence, and Rejection; 3. Therapeutic Strivings, Therapeutic Stumbles; 4. Travel Agents for Death; 5. The Waning of the Epidemic?; 2000: An Epilogue; Appendix 1: Making an Oral History: A Methodological Note; Appendix 2: Biographical Notes on Physicians Interviewed; Notes; Glossary of Medical Terms; Index of Physicians Interviewed; Subject Index

About the Author

Ronald Bayer teaches at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Gerald Oppenheimer teaches at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

Reviews

"From the vantage point of 2001, it is difficult to remember the reactions which marked the advent of AIDS twenty years ago. This book brings back those years so vividly ... At the level of personal and professional experience, it provides a sensitive and compelling evocation of those strange times." Social History of Medicine, Vol 15, No 1