| Description | Exploding the myths about the history and causes of AIDS, this look at the disease reviews the existing body of AIDS research to show that AIDS is not a recent development and that HIV is not necessarily its cause.
Root-Bernstein (physiologist, Michigan State University) is among those who advocate a reappraisal of the current approach to AIDS, which views as an established fact that the presence of HIV is the sole and sufficient cause of the disease. He discusses anomalies, e.g. cases in which HIV has not caused the disease; explains the workings of the immune system and how HIV could be only one of a number of contributing factors, some of which are controllable. This line of thinking has not attracted the big money, perhaps because the research establishment is set up to study virus villains. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. |
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