466p., author's note, postscript, afterword, notes, near-fine first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and bright unclipped dj. "The explosive politics of life vs. profit in America - how two courageous men fought the FDA to save thousands of AIDS patients, and changed the drug industry forever.".

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Publisher

Poseidon Press, New York

Publication Date

1992

Language

English

ISBN 10

0671732447

ISBN 13

9780671732448

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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An indictment of the bureaucrats, doctors, scientists, and corporations that trade life for profit describes how two men set up a drug-smuggling operation in order to obtain the necessary medications for their HIV-positive friends. 50,000 first printing.

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Investigative journalist Kwitny (Endless Enemies) tells the story of two gay men who fought the AIDS epidemic and changed the way the Food and Drug Administation handles experimental drugs. Jim Corti, a medical nurse for AIDS Project Los Angeles whose lover died of the disease, launched a drug-smuggling operation, making runs to Touana, Tokyo and Europe to import unapproved antiAIDS drugs and manufacture them in the U.S. He worked with Martin Delaney, a San Francisco corporate consultant who in 1985 founded Project Inform, an AIDS education group which organized a community research project to assess the effectiveness of drugs. Kwitny courageously names mendacious, meddling bureaucrats, compromised research scientists, equivocating journalists and dedicated doctors.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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