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Critical Care

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Critical Care

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Winner of the 2025 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History

HIV and AIDS devastated communities across Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. In the midst of this profound health crisis, nurses provided crucial care to those living with and dying from the virus. They negotiated homophobia and complex family dynamics as well as defending the rights of their patients.

Bringing together stories from across the country, historian Geraldine Fela documents the extraordinary care, compassion and solidarity shown by HIV and AIDS nurses. Critical Care unearths the important and unexamined history of nurses and nursing unions as caregivers and political agents who helped shape Australia's response to HIV and AIDS.

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Format

Paperback

Publisher

NewSouth Publishing

Country

Australia

Date

1 July 2024

Pages

240

ISBN

9781761170034

Winner of the 2025 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History

HIV and AIDS devastated communities across Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. In the midst of this profound health crisis, nurses provided crucial care to those living with and dying from the virus. They negotiated homophobia and complex family dynamics as well as defending the rights of their patients.

Bringing together stories from across the country, historian Geraldine Fela documents the extraordinary care, compassion and solidarity shown by HIV and AIDS nurses. Critical Care unearths the important and unexamined history of nurses and nursing unions as caregivers and political agents who helped shape Australia's response to HIV and AIDS.

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Format

Paperback

Publisher

NewSouth Publishing

Country

Australia

Date

1 July 2024

Pages

240

ISBN

9781761170034

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