Name: Tinderbox
ISBN: 9780143123002

Who It's For

Good for readers who enjoy Health & Fitness / Diseases / AIDS & HIV
Good for readers interested in book club

What You Get

Themes: Book Club.
Reading lane: Diseases and Infectious Diseases.
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group.

About This Book

"Remarkable... reads like a detective novel."— The New Yorker In this groundbreaking work that reads like a detective novel, longtime Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned the flames. Drawing on remarkable new science, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic, and in a rivet...

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"Remarkable... reads like a detective novel."— The New Yorker In this groundbreaking work that reads like a detective novel, longtime Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned the flames. Drawing on remarkable new science, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic, and in a riveting narrative that stretches from colonial Leopoldville to 1980s San Francisco to South Africa today, it reveals how human hands unleashed this epidemic and can now overcome it, if only we learn the lessons of the past.