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By Susan Resnik. 292 pp. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1999. $29.95. ISBN 0-520-21195-2.

In 1984, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced that, between the years 1979 and 1984, 90 percent of patients with hemophilia who were treated with clotting-factor concentrates had been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A former director of education at the National Hemophilia Foundation, Susan Resnik has written a fascinating page turner about one of medicine's darkest periods. She describes the role well-meaning physicians and organizations trapped in fear and denial had in worsening the situation. In the final chapters of her book, Resnik shows how the hemophilia community survived — renewed in spirit, strong and more . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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