Shattered Dreams?: An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic

by Ronald Bayer and Gerald M. Oppenheimer

Shattered Dreams? is an oral history of how physicians and nurses in South Africa struggled to ride the tiger of the world's most catastrophic AIDS epidemic. Based on interviews-not only from the great urban centers of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban-but from provincial centers and rural villages, this book captures the experience of health care workers as they confronted indifference from colleagues, opposition from superiors, unexpected resistance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195307305
• ISBN13: 9780195307306
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.5"