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In This Riveting Story Of Two Heroic Men Who Changed Government Policy On Experimental Drugs For The Dying, Jonathan Kwitny, One Of America's Foremost Investigative Journalists, Delivers A Hard-hitting Indictment Of The Bureaucrats, Doctors, Scientists, And Corporations That Trade Life For Profit. In 1984, America Became Uneasily Aware Of A New Disease Known As Acquired Immuno-deficiency Syndrome - Aids. By The Time It Began To Receive National Media Attention, Thousands Had Already Died, And Thousands More Were Infected. But The Administration, The National Institutes Of Health, The Food And Drug Administration, And The Public Were Unprepared To Deal With This Mysterious And Deadly Epidemic. Two Men, Jim Corti And Martin Delaney, Undertook The Fight Against The Powerful Establishment And Its Outmoded Laws And Conventions. Corti Was A Medical Nurse; Delaney, A Successful Corporate Consultant.^ Both Gay, They Began Helping Their Hiv-positive Friends To Secure Promising Anti-aids Drugs. Soon, The Two Were Running A Law-defying, Worldwide Drug Smuggling Ring, Bringing Hope And Sometimes Relief To The Desperately Ill, All The While Fighting The Drug Companies, Teaching Hospitals, And G
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jonathan Kwitny
- Publisher
- Poseidon Press
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780671732448
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Medical, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.84 / 5 (45 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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