TY - BOOK AU - Hillman,Bruce J. TI - A plague on all our houses: medical intrigue, Hollywood, and the discovery of AIDS SN - 9781611688757 PY - 2016///] CY - Lebanon NH PB - ForeEdge KW - Gottlieb, Michael S. KW - AIDS (Disease) KW - History KW - Social history KW - 20th century KW - Medical education KW - United States KW - Medical colleges KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-212) and index; One sick queen -- Riding the tiger -- Fast times -- The Waxman cometh -- The color of money -- No love lost -- The power of denial -- Rock -- Elizabeth -- The contentious route to an effective treatment -- Fear itself -- The politics of research advocacy -- The making of a radical -- Le deluge -- Epilogue: redeeming the years lost to the locusts N2 - A frightening new plague. A medical mystery. A pioneering immunologist. In A Plague on All Our Houses, Dr. Bruce J. Hillman dissects the war of egos, money, academic power, and Hollywood clout that advanced AIDS research even as it compromised the career of the scientist who discovered the disease ER -