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Hidden in the Blood - A Personal Investigation of AIDS in the Yucatan (Hardcover, New)
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Hidden in the Blood - A Personal Investigation of AIDS in the Yucatan (Hardcover, New)
Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies
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Hidden in the Blood offers American readers a glimpse of the AIDS
crisis on the Mexican front. Hidden in the Blood explores the daily
lives of staff and patients at a clinic where three-quarters of
HIV-positive people in the region are treated. Readers will come to
know these patients, who come from a soberingly wide range of
social and economic backgrounds - middle-aged fathers, married
couples, transvestites, truck drivers, folklore dancers, a young
woman infected by a blood transfusion during plastic surgery. In
readable, lucid prose, Wilson recounts the heroic efforts of the
clinic staff - doctors such as Alejandro Guerrero and Russell
Rodriguez and nurses like Jose Manuel Polanco - as they struggle to
treat their SIDA patients while coping with their lack of some of
the latest diagnostic technology. Through the stories of these
brave, caring staff members, readers will find evidence to dispel
the common notion that Third-World medicine is a chamber of
horrors. Wilson also explores the broad social context of AIDS in
the Yucatan. Hidden in the Blood tells the stories of
still-closeted homosexual men profoundly worried for their own
survival and privacy, a conservative hematologist who mounted the
first SIDA research effort in the peninsula, and the young men and
women the crisis has moved to become activists.
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