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Critical Care: Nurses on the Frontline of the AIDS Crisis in Australia

by Geraldine Fela

Nursing on the front lines of Australia’s AIDS crisis

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Nursing on the front lines of Australia’s AIDS crisis

Geraldine Fela’s history brings together accounts from nurses who worked through Australia’s HIV and AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 1990s. Their work extended beyond bedside care: nurses collaborated with communities on public health campaigns, advocated for patients, and, through unions, opposed proposed “test and contain” measures. The collected experiences also include memories of homophobia and prejudice, as well as nurses’ participation in coercive elements of the response. By holding these different facets together, the book examines nursing’s role in shaping Australia’s public health response and illuminates a less-examined part of the crisis.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the history of HIV and AIDS in Australia.
  • Those exploring nursing, public health, and community activism.
  • Readers seeking accounts of prejudice and coercion within the AIDS crisis response.

Themes

HIV and AIDS historyNursing and patient advocacyPublic health and community actionHomophobia and prejudiceCoercion in health responses

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Book overview

HIV and AIDS devastated communities across Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. In the midst of this profound health crisis, nurses were caregivers and activists, both on and off the wards, and played a central role in shaping an innovative public health approach to a virus that was shrouded in fear and prejudice. Nurses worked with communities to develop public health campaigns, advocated for their patients and - through their unions - opposed the efforts of doctors and surgeons to introduce traditional public health measures based on ' test and contain' measures. Bringing together stories from across the country, historian Geraldine Fela documents the extraordinary care, compassion, and solidarity witnessed and experienced. Others shared painful memories of homophobia and prejudice, and some participated in unsettling and coercive aspects of Australia's response to the virus. Together, their stories paint a vivid and nuanced picture of HIV and AIDS nursing and shed light on an unexamined aspect of Australia's AIDS crisis.
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