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Scientific errors and controversies in the U.S. HIV/AIDS epidemic : how they slowed advances and were resolved / Scott D. Holmberg.
Van Pelt Library RA643.83 .H65 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holmberg, Scott D., 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease)--Research--United States--History.
- AIDS (Disease).
- HIV infections--Research--United States--History.
- HIV infections.
- AIDS (Disease)--United States--Epidemiology.
- HIV infections--United States--Epidemiology.
- Errors, Scientific.
- Medical errors.
- HIV Infections--epidemiology.
- Epidemiology.
- HIV infections--Research.
- History.
- AIDS (Disease)--Research.
- United States.
- HIV Infections--history.
- Epidemiologic Methods.
- Medical Errors--prevention & control.
- Medical Subjects:
- HIV Infections--epidemiology.
- United States.
- HIV Infections--history.
- Epidemiologic Methods.
- Medical Errors--prevention & control.
- Physical Description:
- x, 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2008.
- Contents:
- About Teamwork 1
- Sources of Error and Epidemiologic Thinking 3
- Interpreting the Relative Value of Studies 10
- The HIV/AIDS Epidemic Today 16
- 2 Causes and Sources of AIDS 21
- Cytomegalovirus 21
- Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type III (HTLV-III) 23
- HIV-2, HTLV-IV (and...SIV and STLV...) 27
- Does HIV-2 Protect against HIV-1? 29
- "Poppers" and Kaposi's Sarcoma 31
- African Swine Fever Virus 33
- HIV Does Not Cause AIDS 35
- The Source of HIV and AIDS 36
- The River 38
- Other Theories 40
- 3 Counting Cases 47
- What Is the Future of AIDS? Modeling the Past to Estimate the Future 53
- Estimating the Impact of AIDS 54
- Idiopathic CD4-Lymphocytopenia (ICL), or the "AIDS, Not!" Syndrome 62
- HIV Reporting 64
- 4 Epidemiologic Controversies 75
- Issues in Sexual Transmission 77
- Blood and Blood Products 81
- "Silent Sequences" 85
- A Florida Dentist 88
- "Safe" Insemination 90
- 5 Unusual and Unproven Modes of HIV Transmission 99
- "No Identified Risk" 100
- Health Care Workers 102
- The Environment 103
- Insects 105
- Belle Glade 107
- Saliva and Biting 109
- Food 111
- Sweat, Tears, and Urine 112
- Household Transmission 113
- 6 Issues in Prevention 121
- HIV Testing 122
- The Person at Risk, or the Person Known to Be HIV-Infected? 128
- Preventing Mother-to-Infant Spread 131
- Needle and Syringe Exchange; Condom Provision 133
- Circumcision 136
- 7 Early Drugs and Biomedical Interventions 147
- The "Pre-Zidovudine" Drugs 147
- Experimental Antiretroviral Therapies Now Largely Abandoned 154
- Zidovudine 156
- After Zidovudine 160
- 8 The Modern Therapeutic Era (after 1995) 171
- When to Start Therapy in HIV-Infected People without Symptoms 173
- Lipodystrophy 179
- Protease Inhibitors and Cardiovascular Disease 182
- Early Vaccines and Microbicides 184
- Strategic Treatment Interruptions 185
- 9 Errors, Their Consequences, and Their Management 199
- Types of Errors and Their Consequences 200
- Human Bias 205
- Bureaucracy, the "Killer Bees," and Other Considerations about Retarding Research 208
- Journals 213
- Higher Education 215
- Appendix Antiretroviral Drugs Approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 2007 221.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780313347177
- 0313347174
- OCLC:
- 166454352
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