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A plague on all our houses : medical intrigue, Hollywood, and the discovery of AIDS / Bruce J. Hillman.
Van Pelt Library RA643.8 .H55 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hillman, Bruce J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gottlieb, Michael S.
- AIDS (Disease)--History.
- AIDS (Disease).
- History.
- Faculty, Medical.
- HIV Infections--history.
- Social Conditions--history.
- Education, Medical, Graduate--history.
- Schools, Medical--history.
- Politics.
- History, 20th Century.
- Medical Subjects:
- Faculty, Medical.
- HIV Infections--history.
- Social Conditions--history.
- Education, Medical, Graduate--history.
- Schools, Medical--history.
- Politics.
- History, 20th Century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 222 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lebanon NH : ForeEdge, [2017]
- Summary:
- A frightening new plague. A medical mystery. A pioneering immunologist. In A Plague on All Our Houses, Dr. Bruce J. Hillman dissects the war of egos, money, academic power, and Hollywood clout that advanced AIDS research even as it compromised the career of the scientist who discovered the disease.
- Contents:
- One sick queen
- Riding the tiger
- Fast times
- The Waxman cometh
- The color of money
- No love lost
- The power of denial
- Rock
- Elizabeth
- The contentious route to an effective treatment
- Fear itself
- The politics of research advocacy
- The making of a radical
- Le deluge
- Epilogue: redeeming the years lost to the locusts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hillman, Bruce J., author. Plague on all our houses
- ISBN:
- 9781611688757
- 1611688752
- OCLC:
- 961307585
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