Hospital Time
by Hoffman, Amy
Hospital Time is a memoir about friendship, family, and caregiving in the age of AIDS. Amy Hoffman, a writer, lesbian activist, and former editor of Gay Community News, chronicles with fury and unflinching honesty her experience serving as primary caretaker for her friend and colleague, Mike Riegle, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1992. Hoffman neither idealizes nor deifies Riegle, whom she portrays as a brilliant man, devoted prison rights activist, and very difficult friend.Hoffma…
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- Full title :Hospital Time / by Amy Hoffman ; with a foreword by Urvashi Vaid.
Summary
Hospital Time is a memoir about friendship, family, and caregiving in the age of AIDS. Amy Hoffman, a writer, lesbian activist, and former editor of Gay Community News, chronicles with fury and unflinching honesty her experience serving as primary caretaker for her friend and colleague, Mike Riegle, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1992. Hoffman neither idealizes nor deifies Riegle, whom she portrays as a brilliant man, devoted prison rights activist, and very difficult friend.Hoffman became central to Riegle's caregiving when he asked her to be his health-care proxy.
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- Publication Date:1997.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Duke University Press
- Place of Publication:Durham, N.C
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1997.
Notes
Description based upon print version of record.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (169 p.)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1283062992, 9781283062992, 9786613062994, 6613062995, 0822383039, 9780822383031, 9780822319276, 0822319276
- oclc:on1136202046
- LC Classification:RC607.A26
- Dewey Decimal:362.1/969792/0092
Table of Contents
Introduction: Hospital Time -- Living with AIDS Distractions -- Too Nice -- Going Shopping -- The Straight Yoga Class -- Mike's Roommate -- Mike's Coat -- My Art, the Sea -- Memphis: Stories Going to Memphis -- DNRI -- Mike's Laundry -- The Plane to Seattle -- Ticket Money -- Mike Dies and Is DNR II -- Laid to Rest Sunday Morning -- Mike Dies Peacefully -- Obituary -- The Great Blue Heron -- The Afterlife Calling the Names -- Ice Chips -- Influences from Beyond the Grave -- Kevin and Me -- Passover -- The Real Family -- The Angel of Death -- The Sheltering Tree -- The Ceiling -- The Teddy Bear -- Catherine -- Six Things I've Inherited -- Two Dreams -- Walta's Birthday -- Mike Eating -- Mike's Dick -- Conclusion: Kaddish
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