Serious Adverse Events : An Uncensored History of AIDS

by Farber, Celia

• ISBN13: 9781933633077
• ISBN10: 1933633077
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-01
• Publisher: Melville House

Summary

Controversial AIDS reporter Celia Farber collects twenty years of investigative work on AIDS. Building on her much discussed cover story inHarper's Magazine"Out of Control: AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science"Celia Farber'sSerious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History Of AIDSasks 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 cancerrarely discussed in the mainstream pressare 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.

Author Biography

From 1987 to 1997, Celia Farber wrote and edited SPIN magazine’s AIDS column, “Words From The Front.” She has also written for many magazines and newspapers, including Esquire, Rolling Stone, Gear, Salon, and Harper’s. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Preface: The Truth Barrier	9	(20)
Chapter One: The Passion of Peter Duesberg	29	(36)
Chapter Two: "Never Before in the History of Disease"	65	(18)
Chapter Three: A Multifactorial Syndrome?	83	(30)
Chapter Four: Sins of Omission	113	(30)
Chapter Five: The Grey Zone	143	(18)
Chapter Six: What About Africa?	161	(22)
Chapter Seven: Out of Africa	183	(24)
Chapter Eight: The Rebel Genius	207	(14)
Chapter Nine: "Only Different in Degree"	221	(8)
Chapter Ten: Science Fiction	229	(24)
Chapter Eleven: An Era of Openness	253	(22)
Chapter Twelve: Out of Control	275	(36)
Epilogue	311	(8)
Appendix I: World Bank Timeline of Global AIDS Events	319
Appendix II: The Birth of Antibodies Equal Infection	311