$46.40
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2024
Summary
Critical Care: Nurses and the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Australia
Highly Commended, Oral History Australia Book Award 2024
HIV and AIDS devastated communities across Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. In the midst of this profound health crisis, nurses provided crucial care to those living with and dying from the virus. They negotiated homophobia and complex family dynamics as well as defending the rights of their patients.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761170034 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761170031 |
| Author: | Geraldine Fela |
| Publisher: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Imprint: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 326g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 276mm x 420mm |
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About The Author
Geraldine Fela
Geraldine Fela is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University. Her research and teaching traverses histories of gender and sexuality, labour, social movements and medicine. She has been widely awarded for her work examining the role of nurses during Australia’s HIV and AIDS crisis and has appeared in both scholarly and popular outlets. Critical Care is her first book.
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