The AIDS Conspiracy: Science Fights Back

by Nicoli Nattrass

Book Overview

Since the early days of the AIDS epidemic, many bizarre and dangerous hypotheses have been advanced to explain the origins of the disease. In this compelling book, Nicoli Nattrass explores the social and political factors prolonging the erroneous belief that the American government manufactured the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to be used as a biological weapon, as well as the myth's consequences for behavior, especially within African American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231149123
• ISBN13: 9780231149129
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher