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Co-conspirator for Justice - The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman (Hardcover)
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Co-conspirator for Justice - The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman (Hardcover)
Series: Justice, Power and Politics
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Alan Berkman (1945-2009) was no campus radical in the mid-1960s; he
was a promising Ivy League student, football player, Eagle Scout,
and fraternity president. But when he was a medical student and
doctor, his politics began to change, and soon he was providing
covert care to members of revolutionary groups like the Weather
Underground and becoming increasingly radicalized by his
experiences at the Wounded Knee massacre, at the Attica Prison
uprising, and at health clinics for the poor. When the government
went after him, he went underground and participated in bombings of
government buildings. He was eventually captured and served eight
years in some of America's worst penitentiaries, barely surviving
two rounds of cancer. After his release in 1992, he returned to
medical practice and became an HIV/AIDS physician, teacher, and
global health activist. In the final years of his life, he
successfully worked to change U.S. policy, making AIDS treatment
more widely available in the global south and saving millions of
lives around the world. Using Berkman's unfinished prison memoir,
FBI records, letters, and hundreds of interviews, Susan M. Reverby
sheds fascinating light on questions of political violence and
revolutionary zeal in her account of Berkman's extraordinary
transformation from doctor to co-conspirator for justice.
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