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This in-depth examination of a compelling public health case takes you step-by-step through the world of medical detective work, as the Centers for Disease Control determine whether Dr. Acer did infect Kimberly Bergalis and other patients, and, if so, whether Acer's actions were accidents or acts of premeditated murder. At the same time, it raises a myriad of public health issues that are of concern to us all.

Fatal Extraction clearly shows how the Centers for Disease Control--and other government agencies--respond to the Bergalis case and similar incidents, examines why government officials act as they do, and questions what they can do differently. As the book unravels the mysteries surrounding Kimberly Bergalis's tragic infection, it informs readers of the actions we can expect (and should demand) our government to take to protect the health of patients, medical workers, and all citizens.

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.

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The revelation of being HIV positive continues to be a discourse fraught with meaning   In Infecting the Treatment: Being an HIV-Positive Analyst, Gilbert Cole offers an intimate and deeply insightful examination of disclosure of his HIV seropositivity on his analytic sense of self and on his clinical work with patients.
 
Cole begins his journey of discovery by meditating on the meanings that being HIV positive have had for him, and by situating these personal meanings within the multiple meanings of HIV seropositivity generated by our culture, leading to a clinical discussion of the pros and cons of disclosure to one's patients.  What begins as a consideration of disclosure of an ostensibly medical fact, opens to an exploration of the broader problematic of disclosure in the context of questions of sameness and difference, of dependence and autonomy, and of the ethical ground of psychoanalytic practice.  He illuminates these issues by circling back to his own predicament, which took the form of an apparent conflict between his self-image as a psychoanalytic therapist committed to a psychoanalytic treatment approach and aspects of his self-experience that seemed uncomfortably dissonant with this identity and this commitment.  He approached resolution of this conflict when he became able to use his HIV seropositivity as a metaphor for aspects of the treatment process.  .
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This book examines seven species of ectotrophic fungi (some of them newly described) and the diseases they cause. Emphasis is on the biology, taxonomy, epidemiology, and detection of the ectotrophic fungi that cause turfgrass patch diseases. Disease management strategies are also presented. Full-color photos depict disease symptoms..
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