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• Title : My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of Aids
• Author : Abraham Verghese
• Rating : 4.97 (218 Vote)
• Publish : 2016-2-24
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 352 Pages
• Asin : 0671785141
• Language : English

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The first book by a doctor who works with AIDS victims daily offers a revealing look at the impact of AIDS on a small Tennessee town, as townspeople respond to the disease's presence in inspiring ways.

But his work at the Johnson City Medical Center soon led him into a shadow world of Bible-belt AIDS, often without the support of his colleagues. From Publishers Weekly When infectious-disease specialist Verghese, the Ethiopian-born son of Indian schoolteachers, emigrated to the U.S. . and settled in Johnson City, Tenn., in the mid-1980s, he finally felt at peace "in my own country" at last. Paperback rights to Vintage; author tour. If revealed, these people's closeted relationships would have, writes Verghese, made them stand out "like Martians." The author tells the stories of several patients, including the gay man who must reconcile with his father and the "innocent" man who has contracted AIDS through a contaminated blood transfusion but who, concerned about society's response to