While author does a very good job of raising important issues of power which relate to race, class, and gender, as well as sexual orientation, he seems to have little ability to rise above immediate issue to give that promised "big picture." Instead of giving us a broader perspective on controversies and crises that he presents so well, he tends to focus on condemning shortsightedness, inflexibility, or selfishness of one or more of adversary parties. The fact that he often has blame aplenty for all sides to a conflict shows evenhandedness but adds little perspective. This focus on conflict is also reflected in profusion of war metaphors in this volume, with chapter titles of "Rallying Troops," "The Making of Soldiers," and "War Bonds." The inutility of such "war on disease" metaphors was ably expressed by Sontag in her brilliant monograph Illness as a Metaphor.

Despite these criticisms of Victory Deferred as an integrative work, it is well worth price for its profusion of anecdotal details and important issues it raises and provides a degree of insight into. Even more than that, it preserves some element of experience and wisdom of many persons interviewed for this book who are no longer with us.

Dr. David F. Duncan is the President of Duncan & Associates, a research and policy studies consulting firm in the areas of public health, mental health, and drug abuse. http://www.duncan-associates.com

Was this information suppressed? You better believe it. Imagine what will happen to Medical 'Establishment', when they have no more 'patients' (we have been somewhat 'impatient', lately)...

The technology is available, and it is even known that people with AIDS are dying of Liver Failure, meaning that drugs they take are killing them more likely than anything else.

Are you with me?

My own mother, Ursula Herrmann died, owning book on these facts for over a year, and translated into German. She did NOT read it and trusted her doctors instead, while dying a slow, painful death!! I am still not over that fact.

This is reason why I want you to know about this. You must spread word about this information. The only acceptable medical professionals we need are Dentists, Chiropractors and Surgeons. All those other medical charlatans, who do apparently not care about alternative methods, prescribe medications against parasites (as we know at this time) that still multiply in our bodies, medications that cause multiple side effects, so they can prescribe yet even more procedures and more medications, etc... It is not their oath to save lives that they are following, but an industry of antiquated expensive but ineffective treatments, leaving people in their care up to awful misery for their own private financial gain.

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