Fatal Extraction: The Story Behind the Florida Dentist Accused of Infecting His Patients with HIV and Poisoning Public Health - Hardcover

Rom, Mark C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787909912 ISBN 13: 9780787909918

Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 1997

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Book by Rom Mark Carl

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"Fatal Extraction gives us an inside look as to how a single dentist, a single patient, a single disease, and a single agency were used to make public policy for an entire country. Strict rigors of scientific investigation did not always apply, but critical scientific thinking allowed the correct decisions to be reached." --M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D., former U. S. Surgeon General "All will be challenged to more fully acknowledge that the practice of public health is in part a political process." --Kristine M. Gebbie, DrPh, RN, first national AIDS policy coordinator "This work is a thoroughly researched investigation of the case of Kimberly Bergalis and several other patients who apparently were infected by HIV by a Florida dentist during the late 1980's...It is recommAnded for public libraries.

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The investigation into how Kimberly Bengalis contracted AIDS gathered worldwide attention when she accused her dentist - Dr David Acre - of giving her the fatal disease. Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concluded that Acer did indeed infect at least six of his patients, many challenged the accuracy of the investigation. In this examination of the situation, Mark Rom poses a number of unanswered questions that surround the case. Was the CDC's investigation accurate? Was their final analysis swayed by political pressure, influenced by public hysteria and hindered by bureacratic red tape? And, if Acer did infect his patients, why isn't the CDC doing anything about it?

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• Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0787909912
• ISBN 13: 9780787909918
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240