Good Intentions: How Big Business And the Medical Establishment Are Corrupting the Fight Against AIDS
- ISBN-10
- 0140160000
- ISBN-13
- 9780140160000
- Series
- Good Intentions
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Penguin Mass Market
- Author
- Bruce Nussbaum
Description
A blistering portrait of an ongoing international scandal--with a new afterword that provides a front-line report on the latest developments in the AIDS crisis. Nussbaum tells of vaulting ambition and greed, of vast sums of money filtered through government agencies and into the profit statements of the manufacturer of AZT, Burroughs Wellcome. 16 pages of photographs.
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