Health wars : on the global front lines of modern medicine / Richard Horton.

New York : New York Review of Books, 2003.

xxii, 592 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 516-565) and index.

Infection: the global threat -- The plagues are flying -- Waiting for the biowar -- Surviving conflict -- The African challenge -- Vaccine myths -- An autopsy of Dr. Osler -- Truth and heresy about AIDS -- A fatal erosion of integrity -- Secret society -- World health disorganization -- How sick is modern medicine? -- DNA: the life of a dead molecule -- Protecting the breast -- The final cut -- In the danger zone -- The health of peoples -- Taking dignity seriously.