Table of Contents
Cast of Characters xi
Preface xiii
Part I A Doctor, Two Patients, and Some Tests
Chapter 1 The Good Doctor in Denial 3
Chapter 2 A Visit with the Family Doctor 13
Chapter 3 Death Sentence? 21
Part II The Disease, a Drug, and Its Industry
Chapter 4 Viral Trojan Horse 33
Chapter 5 A Weapon from the War on Cancer 43
Chapter 6 The Days of Acting Up 57
Chapter 7 Recognizing a Global Pandemic 65
Chapter 8 From the One Percent 79
Chapter 9 But, Doctor, I Don't Feel Sick 87
Chapter 10 The Delta 32 Mutation 95
Chapter 11 Calling All Elite Controllers 99
Chapter 12 Treatment in Hiding 111
Part III Treating the Berlin Patients
Chapter 13 The Second Diagnosis 119
Chapter 14 The Compassionate Use Exemption 131
Chapter 15 Three Deadly Diseases Move In 135
Chapter 16 The Comfort of Family and Strangers 141
Chapter 17 Timing 147
Chapter 18 Transplanting 153
Chapter 19 "Perhaps We Have Eradicated HIV" 163
Chapter 20 An Unexciting Recovery 175
Part IV The Cure
Chapter 21 Trials 185
Chapter 22 Proof of Principle 199
Chapter 23 The Good Doctor in Court 205
Chapter 24 Not Even Surprising 209
Chapter 25 The Promise Kept 221
Chapter 26 A Child Cured-So What? 241
Chapter 27 Zinc Finger Snap 249
Chapter 28 The Abused, the Respected, the Relentless 261
Notes 273
Timeline 297
Acknowledgments 299
Index 303