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Apr 25, 1995 · My Own Country: A Doctor's Story. Paperback – April 25, 1995. From the author of The Covenant of Water and New York Times bestseller Cutting for Stone: a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears.
- Abraham Verghese
- $13.83
- Vintage
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Jul 12, 1998 · My Own Country: Directed by Mira Nair. With Naveen Andrews, Glenne Headly, Hal Holbrook, Swoosie Kurtz. "My Own Country" tells the story of an East Indian doctor who settles in Johnson City, Tennessee. The doctor's name is Abraham Verghese, and he specializes in infectious diseases.
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- Drama
- Mira Nair
- 1998-07-12
Jan 1, 2001 · Although Cutting for Stone was fiction, My Own Country is a memoir, focusing on the years when Verghese, born in Africa to Indian parents, is a young infectious diseases doctor in rural Eastern Tennessee, right at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.
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My Own Country traces the story of a young infectious-disease physician in the mid-1980s in Johnson City, Tennessee, who began to treat patients with a then unknown disease.
Abraham Verghese, a physician and educator, recounts his experience as a young doctor in Johnson City, Tennessee, where he became the city's AIDS expert in the 1980s. He describes the stigma, the patients, and the challenges of working with a deadly and misunderstood disease.
Apr 25, 2024 · My Own Country. by Abraham Verghese. 1. Verghese describes the early eighties, before AIDS had spun out of control, as "a time of unreal and unparalleled confidence, bordering on conceit, in the Western medical world," [p. 24] in which doctors felt they had achieved "mastery over the human body" [p. 25]. How does the reality of AIDS undermine ...
