The AIDS War

The AIDS War: Propaganda, Profiteering and Genocide from the Medical-Industrial Complex
Author John Lauritsen
Country United States
Language English
Genre Non-fiction
Published 1993 (Asklepios)
Media type Print
Pages 479
ISBN 0-943742-08-0

The AIDS War: Propaganda, Profiteering and Genocide from the Medical-Industrial Complex is a 1993 work about the politics of HIV/AIDS by John Lauritsen.

Summary

The AIDS War consists partly of previously published articles. Lauritsen covers topics ranging from AZT to the death of ballet superstar Rudolf Nureyev from AIDS, and provides an abridged version of a 1987 interview with molecular biologist Peter Duesberg, which had first been published in full in the New York Native. Lauritsen is highly critical of Robert Gallo, accusing him of being unable to defend the mainstream view that HIV causes AIDS. He discusses AIDS activist Larry Kramer, giving him credit for exposing problems in the gay community with his novel Faggots (1978), but criticizing him for inhibiting open discussion of AIDS science.[1]

Scholarly reception

Simon LeVay and Elisabeth Nonas called The AIDS War one of many books that lump together the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry for purposes of blame, adding that its title is "sufficiently explicit to make further perusal unnecessary".[2]

Duesberg credited Lauritsen with exposing "the cozy relationships between AIDS organizations and the pharmaceutical industry", commenting that most of his book is "a personal story, documenting the fight against HIV as seen by someone on the front lines."[3]

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Books
  • Lauritsen, John (1993). The AIDS War: Propaganda, Profiteering and Genocide from the Medical-Industrial Complex. New York: Asklepios. ISBN 0-943742-08-0.
  • LeVay, Simon; Nonas, Elisabeth (1995). City of Friends: A Portrait of the Gay and Lesbian Community in America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. ISBN 0262121948.
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