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Nearly everyone in the nursing and other professions has had to say at least once in their career, "I have to write about this " This is the author's account of events that touched her in some way.

Anyone who has been a patient in a hospital or nursing home, student nurses, nurses, and other health care professionals will resonate with the events in the book. While the names of the characters in the book are fictitious, the events themselves did take place historically. The dialogue has been kept as simple as possible, and reflects the flavor of the patients' dialogue. Enjoy.

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This book reflects on the meaning of contemporary life in the light of diverse social reactions to AIDS. Drawing on personal interviews with gay men in Montreal, newspaper reports, government action, historical parallels, and other social facts, the author shows what the AIDS phenomenon can reveal about the nature of current reality. Intimate dimensions of experience are explored in order to understand the medical definition of human life, the 'post-modern' character of the contemporary period, and the pervasive influence of technique. The social analysis of AIDS is interwoven with personal,...