Hidden in the Blood: A Personal Investigation of AIDS in the Yucatàn

by Carter Wilson

Overview

— Paul Farmer, Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231101912
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	08/30/1996
Series:	Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	5.64(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.42(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Carter Wilson is professor of community studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Editorial Reviews

This humane little memoir is a polished and revelatory gem.

Paul Farmer

Writer and ethnographer Wilson celebrates the heroism of AIDS victims, health workers, and activists in Merida, the capital of Yucatan, Mexico, and principle city of the Mayan lowlands. He recounts the daily lives of staff and patients at a clinic that treats most of the HIV-positive patients in the region, acknowledging the lack of the latest techniques and equipment, but dispelling the notion of medicine in the third world as a chamber of horrors. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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