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The author offers first hand accounts of her work with AIDS patients and counsels the friends and family of people with AIDS on how they can become more compassionate and giving to their dying loved ones.

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• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Working with AIDS Patients
• 2 Parents of Children with AIDS
• 3 Children and AIDS
• 4 Babies with AIDS: We the People
• 5 Letters to the Editor
• 6 Finding a Way
• 7 Women and AIDS
• 8 Letting Go
• 9 The Birth of Support Systems
• 10 AIDS in Prison
• Epilogue
• Appendix

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Library Journal Review

Kbler-Ross, the celebrated thanatologist, now joins the chorus of voices waging war with the AIDS epidemic. While her tone is shrill and full of indignation toward those who respond to AIDS with fear or prejudice, the book is nevertheless compelling. Drawing on her conversations with patients, families, and caregivers, the author covers the wide range of emotions triggered by the virus. Kubler-Ross, as in On Death and Dying and other previous works, makes a strong case for human compassion. She sees AIDS as an opportunity for us all to learn the ultimate lesson, the lesson of unconditional love. Recommended for general readers. Rev. David A. Buehler, Charlton Memorial Hospital, Fall River, Mass. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

This unfocused collection of essays, personal testimonials, interview transcripts and other material addresses a variety of topics: the public outcry that foiled the author's efforts to start a hospice for infants with AIDS on her rural Virginia estate; the varying degrees of success to which the world's gay communities have formed vital support systems to care for their sick and dying; the resistance among health and government officials that the author has repeatedly enountered when trying to point out the severity of the epidemic; the incidence of AIDS in prisons. The tales of AIDS patients and the health-care workers who have cared for them are as heartbreaking as the examples of bigotry (both official and civilian) are appalling. But Kubler-Ross (On Death and Dying, etc.) is writing (or compiling) from a distinct point of view that will severely limit the book's appeal. That is, that the AIDS epidemic has been visited upon the human race as a pre-Second Coming test of mankind's spiritual mettlethe ``ultimate challenge'' of the title. It is her belief, she tells a dying young man, that most AIDS victims ``chose to have this illness in order to help mankind to raise their consciousness, and to become more aware that we are all brothers and sisters.'' While her emphatic plea for compassion for all AIDS victims is beyond reproach, few of the ever-growing ranks of individuals touched by this tragedy will be comfortable with the idea that they or their loved ones have chosen to be afflicted by this hideous disease; nor will they find much comfort or counsel in this strange and disappointing book. (January 28) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

CHOICE Review

Kubler-Ross has been involved with caring for terminally ill patients for more than 20 years. In her widely read book, On Death and Dying (1969), she detailed the stages of dying. Recently she has turned her attention to patients with AIDS who not only have to go through the stages of dying, but who are also involuntarily involved in some of the most significant sociopolitical issues of our day. This book details the suffering of individuals with AIDS, presents case histories, provides dialogue from public meetings where citizens debate the issues of providing care to AIDS patients within their community, and looks at AIDS from the perspectives of mothers, babies, prisoners, drug addicts, and homosexuals. Kubler-Ross raises serious questions about society's response to this epidemic and the very significant social and moral issues associated with AIDS; moreover, if discrimination against those with AIDS continues, society will be in a less effective position to respond when the number of AIDS cases dramatically increases. This is a well-written, compelling book by a very caring and able professional.-R.L. Jones, Pennsylvania State University, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center