The AIDS Epidemic: Multidisciplinary Trouble
- 20 March 1986
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 314 (12), 779-782
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198603203141212
Abstract
IN this essay I shall try to summarize in mid-course the status of a unique series of events in human history, which involves virtually all facets of modern knowledge but is usually referred to simply as the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic. Humanity has embarked on a mortal race with a novel pathogen of great subtlety. If this were ancient Greece and I an oracle, my task would be simpler. The fiendishness implicit in the mode of pathogenicity of the AIDS virus could be appreciated as eminently suitable for an instrument of the gods, and the potential inadequacy of society's . . .Keywords
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