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Book Review
ABC of AIDS. 5th ed.
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Ed M W Adler. Pp 128; £17.95. London: BMJ Books, 2001. ISBN 0 7279 1503 7.
Writing a good textbook on HIV infection is very difficult. Large textbooks that attempt to be comprehensive face the problem that, in what is now such a vast and still rapidly moving field, they are out of date by the time they are published. Smaller textbooks on the other hand have to decide what to leave out. This book is clearly aimed as an introduction to the subject for people without much experience of HIV. Although not attempting in …