VIRUSMYTH HOMEPAGE
DEBATING AZT
Dedications and Acknowledgements
To Thabo Mbeki, President of the Republic of South
Africa, for his sterling moral and political leadership in the AZT controversy
in South Africa; to Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, National Minister of Health in
South Africa, for equal integrity and political courage; to Dr Ian Roberts,
former special advisor to the Minister of Health, for passing this debate on;
to my family for enduring a completely preoccupied and distracted husband and
father during the hundreds of hours stolen from them to research and write this
work; to my late father Robin Brink, whose enthusiasm for his medical
negligence law practice seems to have infected me with a similar interest in
medical malfeasance; to Arthur Wilke, my late grandfather by marriage, who
developed my fascination for microbiology as a boy; to journalists Martin
Williams, Martin Welz, Martin du Plessis, Vivienne Vermaak and Albertus van Wyk
for their commitment to ventilating the little-known facts about AZT in South
Africa; to John Lauritsen, Michael Ellner, Celia Farber and Joan Shenton for
pioneering exposes of the drug; to Dr Manu Kothari, Professor of Anatomy at
Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College, King Edward Memorial Hospital,
Mumbai, India, for the deepest spiritual and intellectual inspiration; to my friend
in politics, Lluis Botinas of Barcelona, Spain, executive director of
Plural-21, for amour-piercing discussions about the ideological and
metaphysical substrates of modern medicine that made the AZT disaster not
merely possible but its logical consummation; to Ivan Illich for Medical Nemesis:
The Expropriation of Health, perhaps the most incendiary book I
have ever read; to Dr Peter Duesberg, Professor of Molecular Biology at the
University of California at Berkeley, for kind encouragement - fundamental
disagreements about ‘HIV’ notwithstanding; to Dr Val Turner, consultant
emergency physician at the Royal Perth Hospital, for invaluable friendly advice
and guidance throughout this project; to Dr Todd Miller, molecular
pharmacologist at the University of Miami, for similar help; to Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos,
biophysicist at the Department of Medical Physics, Royal Perth Hospital,
everything. Finally, to my very many unnamed friends in this subject world-wide
for your personal support and assistance, and for all that you have done, and
in many cases sacrificed, to bring the terror to an end.
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DEBATING AZT
VIRUSMYTH HOMEPAGE