Infectious Rhythm

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PREFACE

1. Daniel Baxter, assistant medical director of an AIDS residential treatment center in the South Bronx, responded to this article in an Op-Ed piece four days later: “In my clinic, which cares for a number of substance-abusers, I have seen many residents ask for the new treatments, and their compliance with pill-taking regimens has often impressed me…. AIDS has brought to our attention these marginalized people whom we usually try to ignore in their cardboard boxes on the sidewalks. From the standpoint of both self-interest and humanity, we ignore these fellow sojourners at our peril.” (“Casting Off the ‘Unreliable’AIDS Patient,” New York Times, March 6, 1997, Op-Ed page.) I understand Baxter's strategy in invoking both fear ...