The Origins of AIDS

by Jacques Pepin

Book Overview

It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Zaire, Jacques P pin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in central Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of modern times. He shows how the disease...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108720390
• ISBN13: 9781108720397
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.7" x 8.9"