Cured : how the Berlin patients defeated HIV and forever changed medical science / Nathalia Holt.

  • Holt, Nathalia, 1980-
Date:
[2014]
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Description

A young molecular biologist at the forefront of HIV research, Nathalia Holt tells the historic, multilayered, and compassionate story of two patients--each known in medical literature as the Berlin Patient--and their young research-minded doctors. The backdrop is nothing less than a revolution in cultural attitudes and medical thinking. These two patients' disparate cures came twelve years apart: the first in 1996 from an experimental cancer drug, the other in 2008 from a bone marrow transplant of cells with a particular genetic mutation. Holt connects the molecular dots of these two cases for the first time, providing insight into one of the most important medical breakthroughs of our generation.--From publisher description.

Publication/Creation

New York, New York : Dutton, [2014]

Physical description

xxi, 313 pages ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-295) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    FEJ.37.AA9-10
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ISBN

  • 9780525953920
  • 0525953922