THE HUMANITIES OF MICROBIOLOGY

It is insufficient to consider disease in purely mechanical, chemical or medical terms, it must be considered equally in humanistic or metaphysical terms. ...One sees that beautiful and ultimate metaphysical truth, which has been stated by poets and physicians and metaphysicians in all ages ...that love is the alpha and omega of being; and that the work of healing, or rendering whole, is first and last, the business of love.                                                                                                      

                                                                                                                                - Oliver Sacks

AIDS

1.    Before their Time: A Clinician's Reflections on AIDS

        A physician talks about coping with the deaths of his AIDS patients.

2.    The Orphans of AIDS: Breaking the Vicious cycle

        A compelling article on the rising number of AIDS orphans in the developing world.

3.    After the Sun sets: Living and Dying with AIDS

        The story of a mother who cares and supports her son till his death.