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In search of serenity : a Black family's struggle with the threat of AIDS

Title: In search of serenity : a Black family's struggle with the threat of AIDS / Patti Renee Rose.
Author: Rose, Patti Renee
Publication: Chicago : Third World Press, [1993]

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Description

xxi, 107 pages; 22 cm

Summary

When Patti Rose discovered that her mother was HIV antibody positive, prevailing medical opinion led her to believe--due to her mother's symptoms--that her mother had AIDS. In Search of Serenity is Patti Rose's first person factual account of her family's odyssey that begins with her mother's diagnosis in Harlem and extends to Nairobi, Kenya, in hopes of a solution in Kemron. Patti Rose chronicles her family's confusion, pain, hope, courage, and determination, as they explore the possibilities for a cure to their mother's illness offered by wholistic medicine, vegetarianism, AZT and Kemron. Ultimately, the emotional and educational journey leads Rose to question if HIV is the cause of AIDS. In Search of Serenity challenges African Americans to recognize the AIDS crisis as one of the most serious problems that will face Blacks world-wide in the 21st century, and to respond with a concrete, community-based plan of action--in the face of increasing community ignorance and government apathy. This is essential reading for those who want to view the human lives behind the grim statistics.--Page [4] of cover.

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-107).

Contents

The results -- Reaching for help -- Destroying hope -- Telling friends -- The turning point -- Facing death -- Misdirected anger -- A cure out of Africa -- Alfred's journal -- What is kemron? -- Unanswered questions -- A triumphant return -- In search of serenity.

Call Number

Sc *Ref Third World Press

ISBN

0883780690
9780883780695

LCCN

92060058

OCLC

29671177

Author

Rose, Patti Renee, author.

Title

In search of serenity : a Black family's struggle with the threat of AIDS / Patti Renee Rose.

Publisher

Chicago : Third World Press, [1993]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-107).

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc *Ref Third World Press

Sc D 97-1403

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