Gravest Show on Earth
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Claiming that AIDS never got a chance to be simply a disease, but instead was quickly co-opted as either a scourge from God, a comment on the nation's sexual practices, an opportunity for homophobes and heterophobes, even a shot at the Nobel Prize, Elinor Burkett examines the history of the AIDS epidemic, and finds it rife with examples of activism run amok, good intentions gond bad, and ambition fueled by disease.
Author: Elinor Burkett
Format: Paperback, 398 pages, 140mm x 209mm, 481 g
Published: 1996, Picador USA, United States
Genre: Medicine: General
Claiming that AIDS never got a chance to be simply a disease, but instead was quickly co-opted as either a scourge from God, a comment on the nation's sexual practices, an opportunity for homophobes and heterophobes, even a shot at the Nobel Prize, Elinor Burkett examines the history of the AIDS epidemic, and finds it rife with examples of activism run amok, good intentions gond bad, and ambition fueled by disease.