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This book chronicles the intersection of chaplaincy, autopathography (illness narratives), and stigmatized illness through the observations and stories of a chaplain working at a facility for people with HIV and AIDS. Trained as both an ethnographer and a chaplain, Audrey Elisa Kerr uses memoir to bridge the relationship between caregiver and patient, and allows stories of marginality to frame both her patients'' stories and her own.Audrey Elisa Kerr is a professor of English Literature at Southern Connecticut State University with a special interest in oral history, ethnography, and memoir. She is the author of The Paper Bag Principle: Class, Conspiracy and the Case of Black Washington, DC. She served people with HIV/AIDS as a chaplain for five years.