The face of AIDS at the end of the twentieth century is just as
likely to belong to the homeless, the drug users, the poor and
forgotten members of society as it is to gay men. Invisible to much
of society and without the resources (political, emotional, and
financial) to get help, these are the patients who end their days
at the Spellman Center at St. Clare's Hospital in New York's Hell's
Kitchen. But even in this carkest circumstance, in Spellman's
chaotic and filthy hallways, redemption happens, life is reborn.
Daniel Baxter, who cared for the marginalized patients in
conditions symbolic of their station in life, provides readers with
an unprecedented profile of AIDS. Offering gritty details from his
three-and-a-half years at Spellman, Baxter also passes along his
memories of the hope that rises from AIDS's ashes -- the loving
gesture where there was only hate, the lucidity where there was
only confusion, the emotional connection where there was only
alienation. Baxter tells the stories of patients living each day
with grace in a place where people find a reason to care.
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