Subjects:  1. AIDS & HIV   2. AIDS (Disease)   3. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   4. Gynecology & Obstetrics   5. HIV Infections   6. Health Services For Women   7. Health/Fitness   8. Medical / Nursing   9. Medical care   10. Women   11. Women's Health   

Subjects:  1. AIDS (Disease)   2. AZT (Drug)   3. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   4. Chemotherapy   5. Complications   6. Health/Fitness   7. Side effects   

Subjects:  1. AIDS & HIV   2. AIDS (Disease)   3. Africa   4. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   5. Health Care Delivery   6. Health Care Planning   7. Health Policy   8. Medical   9. Medical / Nursing   

Subjects:  1. AIDS (Disease) in children   2. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   3. Health/Fitness   4. Medical / Nursing   5. Medical Procedure   6. Pediatrics   7. HIV infections   8. Medical / Pediatrics   9. Paediatric medicine   

Subjects:  1. AIDS (Disease)   2. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   3. Congresses   4. General   5. Great Britain   6. Health Care Delivery   7. Politics - Current Events   8. Social aspects   9. Sociology   10. United States   

Subjects:  1. AIDS & HIV   2. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   3. HIV Infections   4. Handbooks, manuals, etc   5. Health/Fitness   6. Infectious Diseases   7. Medical / Nursing   

Customer Reviews (2)

Amazing Book
As a parent of 3 children who are Hiv positive I was able to relate to much in this book. Not only was it informative, but I felt as I could reach out and touch these families through my readings. Anyone who has been infected or affected by Hiv should read this book. I am looking forward to reading more books by Ms Anne Hinsaker Hawkins.

A NEEDED AND IMPORTANT BOOK!
Anne Hawkins has given us an exceptionally compassionate and detailed portrayal of children with HIV and the variety of (good and poor) caretakers in their lives. Her story is also a tribute to a caring physician and his staff who care for these children. Woven throughout is important medical and psychosocial information for those interested in understanding the full situation these children face.

Each of the six stories is beautifully told and pulls at the reader's empathy and outrage; children should not have to face these circumstances, but their caretakers are often trapped and needy too.

The plight of children with HIV is just beginning to be spoken about in many circles. Hawkins' book will be an enormous help to those conversations. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. AIDS (Disease)   2. AIDS (Disease) in children   3. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   4. Biography   5. Children with Special Needs   6. Diseases - AIDS & HIV   7. Family & Relationships   8. Family / Parenting / Childbirth   9. Family/Marriage   10. Infectious Diseases   11. Parenting - General   12. Patients   13. Pediatric Infectious And Parasitic Diseases   14. Pediatrics   15. Popular works   

Customer Reviews (1)

Practical, Well Organized Sourcebook
Practical, well organized and easy to understand this book is a great source of information on the multi-faceted issues of home care for people with AIDS. Much of the book is written in point form under clearly defined headings, and there are a number of useful appendixes, so it is easy to use as a reference. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: setting up a safe and comfortable environment, preventing transmission of infection to & from the AIDS patient, checking for signs and symptoms of illness, managing common physical ailments, nutrition, administering IV feedings and medication, coping emotionally. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. AIDS (Disease)   2. Acquired Immunodeficiency Synd   3. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   4. Caregivers   5. Caregiving   6. Diet / Health / Fitness   7. Diseases - AIDS & HIV   8. Health Care Issues   9. Health/Fitness   10. Home care   11. Patients   12. AIDS: social aspects   13. Coping with illness   14. Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues   15. Home nursing & caring   

Subjects:  1. AIDS (Disease)   2. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   3. Health Care Delivery   4. Health and hygiene   5. Health/Fitness   6. Politics - Current Events   7. Prison Systems   8. Prisoners   9. Public Health   10. United States   11. AIDS: social aspects   12. HIV / AIDS   13. Health & Fitness / General   14. Penology & punishment   15. Public health & preventive medicine   16. Rehabilitation of offenders   17. USA   

Subjects:  1. AIDS & HIV   2. AIDS (Disease)   3. Acquired Immunodeficiency Synd   4. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome   5. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   6. Diet Therapy   7. Immunology   8. Infectious Diseases   9. Medical   10. Medical / Nursing   11. Nutrition   12. Nutritional aspects   

Subjects:  1. AIDS (Disease)   2. Acquired Immunodeficiency Synd   3. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome   4. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   5. Diet / Health / Fitness   6. Epidemiology   7. Forensic Medicine   8. General   9. History   10. Science/Mathematics   

Subjects:  1. AIDS & HIV   2. AIDS (Disease)   3. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   4. HIV Infections   5. Medical   6. Sick children   

Subjects:  1. AIDS & HIV   2. AIDS (Disease)   3. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   4. Etiology   5. HIV (Viruses)   6. Medical / Nursing   7. Political aspects   8. Research   9. Science/Mathematics   

Subjects:  1. AIDS & HIV   2. AIDS (Disease)   3. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   4. Archaeology / Anthropology   5. Chaga (African people)   6. Epidemiology   7. Health Care Delivery   8. Medical   9. Sociology   10. Tanzania   11. Medical / Health Care Delivery   

Subjects:  1. AIDS & HIV   2. AIDS (Disease)   3. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   4. Complications   5. Diseases - Viral   6. Infectious Diseases   7. Medical   8. Medical / Nursing   9. Opportunistic infections   10. Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine   11. Respiratory Diseases   12. Respiratory infections   

Customer Reviews (17)

Too difficult to hold, too engaging to put down
Like its prequel "Becoming a Man", Paul Monette's Borrowed Time is exceptionally well-written, and together they form one of the most important autobiographies our times. Borrowed Time, the story of Paul Monette's and his partner Roger Horowitz's struggle with AIDS, is sometimes emotionally too hard to go on reading, but at the same time too engaging to put down. While reading it I literaly had those feelings. If Becoming a Man is the ultimate growing up/coming out story, then Borrowed Time is the ultimate AIDS story. Together they tell the story of gay life in our times better than any other book I read.

Provocative, tragic
I picked this book up in a thrift store last week and have just suffered with Paul and Roger as I read. Immediately I searched Amazon.com looking for other writings by Paul Monette and learned of his death in 1995. Now I'm really depressed. I'm straight, white, female, a wife and a mother of a 2 year old. Probably not Paul's expected audience yet he reached me deeply. I feel tremendous compassion for anyone dying of AIDS and for those that love them. I will look for an opportunity to demonstrate love to someone with AIDS.

Bravo!
I had to take two days off from work when I started this book because I just couldnt make myself put it down.

Paul (I write in Frankness because by the end of the book all the charecters become like Family) writes with such simplicity and command that one feels like sitting by a campside listening to a wise man tell a heart wrenching tale.

Moreover, one thing i really admired about monette was that he doesnt try to gain sympathy by cashing in on his life. He doesnt use over dramatization as tools of deploying tears!

I really loved the ending because it brought such a fatal blow and with so little effort that the readers themselves had to grieve.

Furthermore, I learnt a wealth of information about HIV and AIDS from this book. Plus I just couldnt believe the red-tapism in the USA medical system. It really made me angry.

Read this book , Pronto!!
May Paul and his lover rest in peace!! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. AIDS (Disease)   2. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   3. Biography   4. Biography / Autobiography   5. Diseases - AIDS & HIV   6. Health   7. Monette, Paul   8. Patients   9. Sociology   10. Specific Groups - Male Gay Studies   11. United States   12. Biography & Autobiography / General   

Subjects:  1. AIDS (Disease)   2. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   3. Diet / Health / Fitness   4. General   5. Health Care Delivery   6. Popular works   7. Self-Help   

Subjects:  1. ACT UP (Organization)   2. AIDS & HIV   3. AIDS (Disease)   4. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   5. Gay Studies   6. General   7. Medical   8. Political aspects   9. Sociology   10. Sociology Of Medicine   11. United States   12. AIDS (Disease)--Political Aspects--United States   

Subjects:  1. AIDS & HIV   2. AIDS (Disease)   3. Acquired Immunodeficiency Synd   4. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome   5. Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)   6. HIV Infections   7. Health/Fitness   8. Immunology   9. Infectious Diseases   10. Medical / Nursing   11. therapy   12. Allergies   13. General practice   14. HIV / AIDS   

Subjects:  1. Analysis   2. Crops   3. Deficiency diseases in plants   4. Field Crops   5. Nutrition   6. Science/Mathematics   7. Soil Science   8. Soils