Cured
how the Berlin patients defeated HIV and forever changed medical science
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Word Count
78,250 words, Guess
Page Count
313 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecuredhowberlinpa0000holt
- ISBN-100525953922
- ISBN-139780525953920
- Library of Congress Control Number2013037181
- OCLC Control Number858649761
and 3 more
- Better World BooksO8-ABS-071
- Better World Books9780525953920
- Open LibraryOL26918128M
Classifications
- DDC614.5/993920943
- LCCRA643.86.G2 H65 2014
- LCCRA643.86.G2H65 2014
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.
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