| Co-Conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman Contributor(s): Reverby, Susan M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1469656256 ISBN-13: 9781469656250 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $29.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Political - Biography & Autobiography | Medical (incl. Patients) - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2019049812 |
| Series: Justice, Power, and Politics |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.8" W x 9.4" (1.50 lbs) 408 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
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| Publisher Description: Alan Berkman (1945-2009) was no campus radical in the mid-1960s; he was a promising Ivy League student, football player, Eagle Scout, and fraternity president. But when he was a medical student and doctor, his politics began to change, and soon he was providing covert care to members of revolutionary groups like the Weather Underground and becoming increasingly radicalized by his experiences at the Wounded Knee takeover, at the Attica Prison uprising, and at health clinics for the poor. When the government went after him, he went underground and participated in bombings of government buildings. He was eventually captured and served eight years in some of America's worst penitentiaries, barely surviving two rounds of cancer. After his release in 1992, he returned to medical practice and became an HIV/AIDS physician, teacher, and global health activist. In the final years of his life, he successfully worked to change U.S. policy, making AIDS treatment more widely available in the global south and saving millions of lives around the world. Using Berkman's unfinished prison memoir, FBI records, letters, and hundreds of interviews, Susan M. Reverby sheds fascinating light on questions of political violence and revolutionary zeal in her account of Berkman's extraordinary transformation from doctor to co-conspirator for justice. |
Contributor Bio(s): Reverby, Susan M.: - Susan M. Reverby is the Marion Butler McLean Professor Emerita in the History of Ideas and Professor Emerita of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy. |