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Witness to AIDS / Edwin Cameron ; with contributions by Nathan Geffen.

Title
Witness to AIDS / Edwin Cameron ; with contributions by Nathan Geffen.
Author
Cameron, Edwin.
Publication
London ; New York : I. B. Tauris, 2005.

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Geffen, Nathan.
Description
238 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 22 cm.
Summary
When Edwin Cameron announced to a stunned local and international media that he -- one of South Africa's most prominent citizens - was himself living with the virus cutting swathes through the population of the continent, the impact was immediate. In Witness to AIDS, Edwin Cameron's compelling memoir, he grapples with the meaning of HIV/AIDS: for him as he confronts the possibility of his own lingering death, and for all of us in facing up to one of the most desperate challenges of our time. In his intensely personal account of survival, Cameron blends elements of his destitute childhood with his daily duties as a senior judge and international human rights lawyer, while focusing always on the epidemic's central issues : stigma, unjust discrimination, and, most vitally, the life-and-death question of access to treatment. Cameron's remarkable story of his own survival in an epidemic that has cost millions of lives is at once moving and uplifting, sobering and ultimately hopeful.
Subject
  • Cameron, Edwin > Health
  • AIDS (Disease) > Patients > South Africa > Biography
  • Lawyers > South Africa > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Autobiographie.
Note
  • "First published in South Africa by Tafelberg Publishers Limited." -- T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-227) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword by Nelson Mandela -- Second chances -- Just a virus, just a disease -- Race, sex and death in Africa -- The tragedy of AIDS denialism in South Africa -- A judge is called as witness to AIDS -- We are not the Red Cross -- patients, profits and death from AIDS (with Nathan Geffen) -- Poor treatment -- justice for poor people (with Nathan Geffen) -- Choices.
ISBN
1845111192 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 60419097
  • SCSB-12296355
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library