Panic: The story of AIDS by Robin McKie

Description

This book was written in the early days of the AIDS pandemic, as panic set in and the mounting hysteria about a disease for which a cure still had to be found, escalated. Robin McKie, Science Correspondent for the Observer "Gives the most up-to-date analysis of the AIDS situation, recounts its origins, tells the story of the scientists who are battling to find a cure and the doctors and health workers who are dealing with its victims, and he looks at Mans prospects for vanquishing this lethal sting-in-the-tail of the so called permissive society."

Year

1986 (First Edition)

Publisher

New York Thorson Publishing Group

Pages

128

Condition

Pages yellowed on edges, slight wear and tear of cover, but it remains one of the pioneering books on the subject, with a fearful insight on the spreading of the disease in Africa.