The Slow Plague: A Geography of the AIDS Pandemic
AIDS epidemiology is a compelling and timely subject. Certainly even AIDS researchers find the scope of the present and future epidemic hard to comprehend. While providing some interesting maps and figures, Gould has written a rambling, self-conscious, and overly digressive account of the origin and spread of AIDS. He seems to favor compulsory AIDS testing and patient quarantine. A better choice might be Mirko Grmek's History of AIDS: Emergence & Origin of a Modern Pandemic (Princeton, 1990), supplemented by more recent journal and newspaper articles. This title is not recommended, given the rapidity of change in this area of research and the deficiencies of the title. --Mary Chitty, Biotrends Research, Natick, Mass.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.