Witness to AIDS - Rilegato

Cameron, Edwin; Mandela, Nelson

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1845111192 ISBN 13: 9781845111199

Casa editrice: Tauris Academic Studies, 2005

Riassunto

When Edwin Cameron announced to a stunned local and international media that he – one of South Africa’s most prominent citizens - was himself living with the virus cutting swathes through the population of the continent, the impact was immediate. In Witness to AIDS, Edwin Cameron’s compelling memoir, he grapples with the meaning of HIV/AIDS: for him as he confronts the possibility of his own lingering death, and for all of us in facing up to one of the most desperate challenges of our time.  In his intensely personal account of survival, Cameron blends elements of his destitute childhood with his daily duties as a senior judge and international human rights lawyer, while focusing always on the epidemic's central issues : stigma, unjust discrimination, and, most vitally, the life-and-death question of access to treatment. Cameron's remarkable story of his own survival in an epidemic that has cost millions of lives is at once moving and uplifting, sobering and ultimately hopeful.

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L'autore:

Edwin Cameron is a justice in South Africa's Constitutional Court, and a former justice in Supreme Court of Appeal. He is an internationally respected human rights lawyer and AIDS activist.

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• Editore: Tauris Academic Studies
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1845111192
• ISBN 13: 9781845111199
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240