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Not Waiting for a Cure Oral History Project

Titles: Not Waiting for a Cure Oral History Project (Supplied title)

Description: In the early 1980s, Minnesota began to struggle with a new public health and social challenge: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS. The project documents Minnesota's response to AIDS from personal and sociopolitical perspectives. This collection includes nineteen narrations documenting the memory of those working in and lost to the epidemic. The narrators discuss the reasons for their AIDS actions, the effect the epidemic has had on their faith, their commitments to other issues and their image of the United States. Interviews were conducted in 1994 and 1995, when the epidemic was entering its second decade. At the time, many were assessing their ability to maintain their degree of involvement, and others long involved in the epidemic were facing death. The project was coordinated by Fraser Nelson, who held the position of HIV Services Coordinator for the Minnesota Department of Health from 1989 to 1995. Additional narrations were collected by Macalester College students in a 1995 course, Feminist Methods in Research, under the direction of Nelson and Professor Michal McCall.

Dates

  • 1994 - 1995 (Creation)

Interviews

Creation

Identifiers

  • Library Call Number: OH 50
  • Accession Number: AV1996.17

Holding Type: Oral History - Project

Quantity: 1 project 24 hours sound cassette 324 pages transcript

Format

  • Content Category: sound recordings
  • Content Category: text

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