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

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


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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?

Table of Contents:
A fatal extraction; sex - who infected the patients?; science - did Acer transmit HIV to his patients?; suspicions - how did Acer infect his patients?; senators - are the policies safe?; safety - out of the CDC's hands; future extractions.

About the Author :
MARK CARL ROM is assistant professor of Government and Public Policy, Georgetown University and a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar of Health Policy and Research at the University of California, Berkeley. Rom also served as Project Manager of the U.S. General Accounting Office's inquiry into the CDC's handling of the Bergalis/Acer case.

Review :
"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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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780787909918
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
  • Height: 241 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 476 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0787909912
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jun 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Story Behind the Florida Dentist Accused of Infecting His Patients with HIV and Poisoning Public Health
  • Width: 161 mm


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