Hospital time

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"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"--Cover.

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Full title :Hospital time / Amy Hoffman ; with a foreword by Urvashi Vaid.

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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.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xv, 149 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780822383031, 0822383039, 0822319276, 9780822319276, 0822319209, 9780822319207
oclc:on1055303972
LC Classification:RC607.A26
Dewey Decimal:362.1/969792/0092

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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Aidants naturels AIDS (Disease) -- Biography. -- Patients AIDS (Disease) -- Patients Biographies Caregivers health Riegle, Mike Sidéens -- Biographies Sidéens -- Soins hospitaliers