One life at a time an American doctor's memoir of AIDS in Botswana
When Dr. Daniel Baxter arrived in Botswana in 2002, he was confident of the purity of his mission to help people with AIDS, armed with what he thought were immutable truths about life-and himself-that had been forged on his AIDS ward in New York City ten years earlier. But Baxter's good intenti...
| Main Author: | Baxter, Daniel (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Skyhorse Publishing,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Beginnings
- First rumblings
- In the thick of it: "The new face of AIDS"
- First forays into Africa
- Part 2: The great experiment begins: Botswana 2002-2008
- Not a community of Mother Teresa's
- Crash and burn
- Learning to dance
- Outreach 2003: Molepolole
- Local flora and fauna: "Are you or have you ever been an imbecile?"
- Holy Cross Hospice
- Local flora and fauna: "A first-rate country for second-rate people"
- All part of the package
- Enough is enough, or Not outstaying your welcome
- Part 3: American interlude
- Room 4224
- Part 4: Botswana, 2013-2015: into the belly of the beast
- the more things changed...
- Princess Marina, I
- Outreach, ten years later
- Holy Cross Hospice: final lessons
- Princess Marina, II
- Final departure.