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This is a great book to read in conjunction with Oshinsky's Bellevue, which details the history of medicine in general and includes a brief summary of the story told in this book. It was great to be able to get the full story here. Bellevue also touches on the ebola epidemic. I highly recommend reading David Quammen's Spillover. It was one of the most spectacular books I have had the pleasure to read.
This book really reminded me of so many things about the aIDS epidemic that I had forgotten or w ...more
This book really reminded me of so many things about the aIDS epidemic that I had forgotten or w ...more
In the 25 years since this book was published, I've read it three times. This is the first time I've felt anything other than outrage, and have been able to notice the writing. Certainly I felt outrage as well this time, along with horror, anger, rage, etc. It's hard not to. The AIDS epidemic, as a public health, scientific, and political issue, was mishandled in every way possible, and there's much we can learn from that morass. Now that we've made some advances in all of those areas, I found i
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