| Good Intention, is a talc of vaulting ambition. greed, and hubris set against the tragic backdrop of the world s number-one health crisis: AIDS. Bruce Nussbaum takes us behind the scenes to reveal how America s top scientists are at the center of a triangle of power. He shows how the National Institutes of Health allied with the drug company Burroughs Wellcome. secretly helped by the FI)A, to steamroll a thirty-year-old drug, AZT, into becoming the only approved treatment for AIDS. At the heart of the story is a small group of scientists that hold the lives of tens of thousands in their hands. There s the puppet master, the bril- liant i)r. David Barry, Burroughs Wellcome s chiefstrategist; Dr. Tony Fauei, who grabbed control ofthe government s AIDS research program only tosquander $1 billion without developing a singlenew drug; and Michael Callen, who fought for hislife by battling the research labyrinth with a newbiomedical underground. An old-boy network of powerful medicalresearchers dominates in every disease feld, fromAIDS to Alzheimcr s, Nussbaum reports. Theycontrol the major committees, they run the mostimportant trials. They are accountable to no one.I)espitc the billions of taxpayers dollars that goto them every year, there is no public oversight.Medieal scientists have convinced society thatonly they can police themselves. |
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