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Memoirs of AIDS Doctor Gao Yaojie Published by Mirror Publishing in Hong Kong
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Memoirs of AIDS Doctor Gao Yaojie Published by Mirror Publishing in Hong Kong

Table of Contents

Book One: The Gao Family and My Life Before and Up to Retirement

Chapter One: My Childhood and Youth (From My Earliest Memories to 1960)

Born Into a Distinguished Family
    What I Know About My Gao Family Ancestors
    My Father's Generation and Their Children
 
Gao New Village
    What I Remember About Gao New Village
    My Recollection of the Layout of Some Classic Buildings in Gao New Village
 
Escaping the Bonds of the Traditional China
    My Childhood
    The War and Moving the Family to Kaifeng
 
My Student Years
    High School
    College Years at Evacuation Locations During the War Against Japan
    Medical School at National Henan University
 
Becoming a Gynecologist
    Joys Among the Hard Work of Gynecology
    Working While Having My Own Children
    I am a Good Doctor, Not a Good Mother

Chapter Two: Living Through the Three Disasters (1960 - 1974)
My Profession Gives Me a Temporary Reprieve from Disaster
    Participation in Medical Teams Sent Down to the Countryside
    Life with a Village Medical Team

Escaping with My Life From Disaster Hardships
    Coming up Against the Storm of the Cultural Revolution
    What I Swore After My Unsuccessful Suicide Attempt
    Hardships in a “Cattle Stall”

Mother and Child Spend Time in Jail
    My Son Spent Three Years in False Imprisonment Because of Our Family Tie
    My Thirteen Months in a Labor Camp
    The Verdict Against My Son and Its Rectification
    My Unusual Condemnation to Reform Through Labor and its Rectification

Chapter Three: Returning to Work (1974 - 1995)

Springing Back After Repression, Returning to My Specialty
    Transfer to Gynecological Work at the First Hospital of the Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
    Unable to Use my Skills Due to the Conditions at that Hospital
    Beginning to Work on Specific Disorders

Still Looking for Difficult Tasks
    Searching for Difficult Cases in all the City Hospitals
    Feeling the Powerlessness and Frustrations of "Just Following Orders"
    Treating Tumors with Chemotherapy

Continuing Medical Education To Better Treat Difficult Cases
    Experiences at Beijing Union Medical College Hospital
    The First Hospital of the Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Becomes a Center for Treating Choriocarcinoma and 恶萄
    Awarded the Henan Province S&T Award, Second Class

At the Age of Retirement
    I Can't Keep Up with the Demands of My Work
    After Retirement, I Refuse Re-Employment by the Hospital
    Educating Society About Women's Health
    Becoming More Aware of Promiscuity and the Rapid Increase in Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Book Two: After Retirement, I Am Caught Up in the HIV/AIDS Storm

Chapter Four From Fighting Counterfeit Medicines to Focusing on HIV/AIDS (1996 - 2000)

Surveys of Roving Medical Care Providers, Phony Physicians, Fake Drugs, and Other Social Ills
    Fighting fake “sexually transmitted disease roving medicine”
    Discovering Many Cases of Fake Physicians and Fake Drugs

Winning the Support of the Henan Provincial Leadership at the Time
    Henan Provincial Leadership Supported My Fight Against Fake Physicians and Fake Drugs
    Revenge I Suffered as a Result

My First Step Towards Involvement with HIV/AIDS
    A Surprising Diagnosis
    Why His Family Was Going to Be Wiped Out

Getting a Better Understanding of the Causes of HIV/AIDS
    Learning that AIDS Was Appearing Mostly in the Countryside
    Difficulties of Anti HIV/AIDS Education Work

Chapter 5 “The Blood Disaster” (2000 - 2004)

The Harm the “Blood Disaster” Caused
    All Caused by the “Blood Plasma Economy”
    The Will to Live of People Living with AIDS
 
Eyewitness to the AIDS Disaster
    How Many People Living with AIDS Found No Alternative but Suicide
    The Helplessness of Families Living with AIDS
 
The Sad Fate of AIDS Orphans
    The Three Main Problems of AIDS Orphans
    These Three Four Year Olds Are Worse Off than Orphans
How AIDS Orphans Are Treated

How I Came to Concentrate on AIDS Orphans
    Tu Cong Came
    Tu Cong Said: Emergency Action on AIDS is Like Fighting a Fire
    Gao Yanning Came

Chapter Six Feeling More Acutely the Difficulties of AIDS Prevention Work (2004 - 2008)

A Special Nightmare
    She Came on International Women's Day, March 8, 2005
    Why are there So Many AIDS cases from Blood Transfusions?
    Even Today, there are Still Many Phony Physicians

AIDS Court Cases
    People Living with AIDS Have Nowhere to Bring a Law Suit
    Fierce Crackdown on AIDS Petitioners to Higher Levels of Government

A Black Cloud Hanging Over the City (Part I)
    How the “Voice of Life” Became a Disaster
    Augur of Misfortune
    “The Plot is Revealed”

A Black Cloud Hanging Over the City (Part II)
    Traditional Methods of Control: “Implicating Nine Generations of a Family”
    Many “Persuaders” Darken My Door
    Aftermath

I Come on Behalf of the Poorest of China's Poor
    I Sneaked Out
    My Speech in America and Participation in “Vital Voices” Event
    The Excitement Back Stage
    Hillary Clinton's Friendly Curiosity
    Am I a Hero? (instead of a conclusion)

My Unforgettable Trip to the Philippines
    Why Did I Make a Quiet Trip to the Philippines?
    A Special Interview With a Writer

Bibliography, Awards and Will
Supplementary Materials
    Footprints of a Climber
    A Roving Physician's Lonely Fight (Beijing Youth Daily article)



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