Reviews and Notes: HIV Infection: A Clinical Manual

HIV Infection: A Clinical Manual

Second edition. Howard Libman and Robert A. Witzburg; eds. 555 pages. Boston: Little, Brown; 1993. $32.50.

Those who care for patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, teach others about it, and perform clinical research as I do have amassed various local educational materials such as printed guides and manuals. The intended audience is usually medical students and resident physicians, with good reason because they provide an increasingly disproportionate amount of care to HIV-infected persons in this country. Several academic centers have taken their local educational manuals “public” in the past few years, and as more practicing physicians begin caring for patients with HIV and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), willingly or not, the demand for current, accurate, and practical information for outpatients and inpatients will increase.

A group at Boston University School of Medicine has revised and rewritten its local manual, designed primarily …