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pb |
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9780933633018 |
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Melville House Publishing |
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2006-05-30 |
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ITEM OVERVIEW
Controversial AIDS reporter Celia Farber collects twenty years of investigative work on AIDS and asks important questions about the costs and results of the two-decade long "war on AIDS."
Here Farber conducts new interviews with controversial AIDS dissidents, including UC Berkeley's Peter Duesberg, UNAM's Harvey Bialy, and Nobelist Kary Mullis. Their views on HIV and cancer—rarely discussed in the mainstream press—are considered at length. Also included are accounts of some of the most dramatic and controversial questions caught up in the fight against AIDS. Farber investigates AIDS co-factors, unexplained causes of immunodeficiency (HIV-negative AIDS), estimates of the AIDS epidemic in Africa, and, perhaps most importantly, drug treatment plans. In 1989, Farber was the first magazine journalist to call attention to the dangers of high-dose AZT monotherapy. In 2000, she took aim at David Ho's "hit hard, hit early" treatment plan. In both cases, Farber's suspicions turned out to be correct. AIDS drugs, when improperly prescribed or promoted, can be much more deadly than AIDS itself. Farber's candor and extensive research sheds new light on the AIDS epidemic and its important effects on our current state of medical research.
"Although much of what Farber dredges up is not new, the fact remains that her argument has not been answered to the satisfaction of a lot of people. I would guess that it is not going to be so easy now to sweep this debate under the carpet by naming Farber and Duesberg and others 'crazies' and 'HIV-deniers.' As Farber herself points out, there is too much money and greed now controlling the entire system of our 'treatment' for that to be an effective response."
—Larry Kramer, Founder, ACT UP
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