Since the decade to lift the ban on gays in the military, the emergence of gay conservatives, and the onslaught of antigay initiatives across America, the gay and lesbian community has been asking itself tough questions: Where should the movement go?  What do we want?  In Virtual Equality, veteran activist Urvashi Vaid tackles these questions with a unique combination of visionary politics and hard-earned pragmatism.

The Dream of a Common Movement collects essays, interviews, and speeches by the late feminist and civil rights activist Urvashi Vaid, whose pioneering writing and organizing over the course of four decades fundamentally shaped the LGBTQ movement. Vaid explores the LGBTQ movement’s impact on the AIDS epidemic and its challenges as it developed a national presence. She calls out movement leaders and donors for not addressing gender, race, and class issues and passionately argues that the goal of any liberation movement should be transformation, not assimilation. In personal essays, Vaid describes a double consciousness forged by the experience of immigration and a complicated relationship with her Indian-American and lesbian identities. Whether she was focused on the Donors of Color Network, the 22nd Century Initiative, the Lesbian Political Action Committee, or other initiatives she launched, Vaid was steadfast in her vision of a more just society and believed deeply in the power of people coming together to effect change. Offering a window into the breadth of her progressive vision for social change, this volume inspires readers to never stop organizing and marching.

The Dream of a Common Movement collects essays, interviews, and speeches by the late feminist and civil rights activist Urvashi Vaid, whose pioneering writing and organizing over the course of four decades fundamentally shaped the LGBTQ movement. Vaid explores the LGBTQ movement’s impact on the AIDS epidemic and its challenges as it developed a national presence. She calls out movement leaders and donors for not addressing gender, race, and class issues and passionately argues that the goal of any liberation movement should be transformation, not assimilation. In personal essays, Vaid describes a double consciousness forged by the experience of immigration and a complicated relationship with her Indian-American and lesbian identities. Whether she was focused on the Donors of Color Network, the 22nd Century Initiative, the Lesbian Political Action Committee, or other initiatives she launched, Vaid was steadfast in her vision of a more just society and believed deeply in the power of people coming together to effect change. Offering a window into the breadth of her progressive vision for social change, this volume inspires readers to never stop organizing and marching.

This book puts forward a comprehensive text that addresses routine uses of oxygen as a therapeutic modality as well as utilization of supplemental oxygen and advanced support of academic respiratory failure in the sickest patients with hypoxemia seeking care in medical centers. These centers range from rural or safety net hospitals to the most advanced academic medical centers. Oxygen supplementation may be one of the most commonly applied therapeutic modalities utilized in modern medicine.  Despite this, a comprehensive discussion of the practical application of supplemental oxygen has often been limited to treatises that deal with the very advanced forms lung disease without educating the reader on the basics of oxygen in human physiology and the full spectrum of human illnesses that compromise oxygen delivery to the host. As highlighted by the recent pandemic, there are growing number of tools to improve oxygenation.  The authors cover both harmful effects of oxygen delivery, beneficial effects, and a careful description of the risks and benefits to understand when advanced techniques can be life-saving and when they should be avoided. In 2018, a meta-analysis addressed the use of simple supplemental oxygen in a number of routine diagnoses including pneumonia, myocardial infarction, sepsis and stroke.  The authors put this very important background into context for the modern physician guiding them on the appropriate use of oxygen to avoid the pitfall of increasing mortality without affecting important patient outcomes. Every practicing physician should be aware of the benefits of oxygen therapy, but must also understand the harms and how to avoid overuse.Beyond routine therapeutics, the authors review the use of oxygen in SCUBA and mountaineering so that the recreational enthusiast and the physician treating such individuals can be ready to understand the pathophysiology and therapeutic options available to the clinician.  The authors also include chapters covering special disease states such as sleep apnea, carbon dioxide poisoning and methemoglobinemia to understand how these conditions can reduce oxygen delivery and lead to significant morbidity and even mortality.This is an ideal guide for all medical professionals who use oxygen to treat and help their patients.

Since the decade to lift the ban on gays in the military, the emergence of gay conservatives, and the onslaught of antigay initiatives across America, the gay and lesbian community has been asking itself tough questions: Where should the movement go?  What do we want?  In Virtual Equality, veteran activist Urvashi Vaid tackles these questions with a unique combination of visionary politics and hard-earned pragmatism.

The Dream of a Common Movement collects essays, interviews, and speeches by the late feminist and civil rights activist Urvashi Vaid, whose pioneering writing and organizing over the course of four decades fundamentally shaped the LGBTQ movement. Vaid explores the LGBTQ movement’s impact on the AIDS epidemic and its challenges as it developed a national presence. She calls out movement leaders and donors for not addressing gender, race, and class issues and passionately argues that the goal of any liberation movement should be transformation, not assimilation. In personal essays, Vaid describes a double consciousness forged by the experience of immigration and a complicated relationship with her Indian-American and lesbian identities. Whether she was focused on the Donors of Color Network, the 22nd Century Initiative, the Lesbian Political Action Committee, or other initiatives she launched, Vaid was steadfast in her vision of a more just society and believed deeply in the power of people coming together to effect change. Offering a window into the breadth of her progressive vision for social change, this volume inspires readers to never stop organizing and marching.

The Dream of a Common Movement collects essays, interviews, and speeches by the late feminist and civil rights activist Urvashi Vaid, whose pioneering writing and organizing over the course of four decades fundamentally shaped the LGBTQ movement. Vaid explores the LGBTQ movement’s impact on the AIDS epidemic and its challenges as it developed a national presence. She calls out movement leaders and donors for not addressing gender, race, and class issues and passionately argues that the goal of any liberation movement should be transformation, not assimilation. In personal essays, Vaid describes a double consciousness forged by the experience of immigration and a complicated relationship with her Indian-American and lesbian identities. Whether she was focused on the Donors of Color Network, the 22nd Century Initiative, the Lesbian Political Action Committee, or other initiatives she launched, Vaid was steadfast in her vision of a more just society and believed deeply in the power of people coming together to effect change. Offering a window into the breadth of her progressive vision for social change, this volume inspires readers to never stop organizing and marching.

This book puts forward a comprehensive text that addresses routine uses of oxygen as a therapeutic modality as well as utilization of supplemental oxygen and advanced support of academic respiratory failure in the sickest patients with hypoxemia seeking care in medical centers. These centers range from rural or safety net hospitals to the most advanced academic medical centers. Oxygen supplementation may be one of the most commonly applied therapeutic modalities utilized in modern medicine.  Despite this, a comprehensive discussion of the practical application of supplemental oxygen has often been limited to treatises that deal with the very advanced forms lung disease without educating the reader on the basics of oxygen in human physiology and the full spectrum of human illnesses that compromise oxygen delivery to the host. As highlighted by the recent pandemic, there are growing number of tools to improve oxygenation.  The authors cover both harmful effects of oxygen delivery, beneficial effects, and a careful description of the risks and benefits to understand when advanced techniques can be life-saving and when they should be avoided. In 2018, a meta-analysis addressed the use of simple supplemental oxygen in a number of routine diagnoses including pneumonia, myocardial infarction, sepsis and stroke.  The authors put this very important background into context for the modern physician guiding them on the appropriate use of oxygen to avoid the pitfall of increasing mortality without affecting important patient outcomes. Every practicing physician should be aware of the benefits of oxygen therapy, but must also understand the harms and how to avoid overuse.Beyond routine therapeutics, the authors review the use of oxygen in SCUBA and mountaineering so that the recreational enthusiast and the physician treating such individuals can be ready to understand the pathophysiology and therapeutic options available to the clinician.  The authors also include chapters covering special disease states such as sleep apnea, carbon dioxide poisoning and methemoglobinemia to understand how these conditions can reduce oxygen delivery and lead to significant morbidity and even mortality.This is an ideal guide for all medical professionals who use oxygen to treat and help their patients.