The Least of These My Brethren: A Doctor's Story of Hope and Miracles in an Inner-City AIDS Ward Contributor(s): Baxter M. D., Daniel J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156005883 ISBN-13: 9780156005883 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $21.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1998 Annotation: The face of AIDS at the end of the 20th century is just as likely to belong to the poor, homeless, and forgotten members of society as it is to gay men. Offering gritty details from his three-and-a-half years at the Spellman Center at St. Clare's Hospital in New York's Hell's Kitchen, Daniel J. Baxter, M.D., tells the stories of patients living each day with grace in a place where people find a reason to care. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Medical (incl. Patients) - Medical | Aids & Hiv - Medical | Health Care Delivery |
Dewey: 362.196 |
LCCN: 98004555 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.72" W x 8.48" (0.77 lbs) 276 pages |
Themes: - Topical - AIDS |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In an "extraordinary" (Newsday) book of "Tolstoyan power" (Washington Post Book World), a doctor shares stories of suffering and redemption from the three-and-a-half years he spent caring for down-and-out AIDS patients in New York's Hell's Kitchen. |