History of AIDS: Emergence and Origin of a Modern Pandemic

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Princeton University Press, 1990 - Health & Fitness - 279 pages

By drawing on the latest discoveries in virology, microbiology, and immunology, Mirko Grmek depicts the AIDS epidemic not as an isolated incident but as part of the long, but far from peaceful, coexistence of humans and viruses.

 

Contents

Proclaim a New Disease
3
Chapter
9
Chapter
15
Its Highs and Lows
182
Bibliography
221
Index
230
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About the author (1990)

Mirko D. Grmek, M.D., Ph.D., was a physician in Yugoslavia and Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Zagreb. Naturalized as a French citizen, he is living in Paris, where he is currently Director of Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne.

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