P
Pahwa, Savita, 90
Paicheler, Geneviéve, 378 n.170
Palca, Joseph, 145
Panem, Sandra, 378 n.170
parallel track program, 340
Pasteur Institute (Paris): on HIV hypothesis, 84
LAV antibodies study, 88 -89
LAV discovered at, 69 -72 (see also Montagnier, Luc)
patent dispute with U.S. government over blood screening test, 77
paternalism, activism against, 222
pathogenesis, 283
vs . etiology, 157
and viral load, 316 -17
patients: activism of, 348 -50
education of, 10
noncompliance of, 249
self-help groups, 9. See also activism
treatment activism
"Patient's Bill of Rights," 206
Patton, Cindy, 39 , 373 n.126, 377 n.168, 380 n.13, 381 n.18, 383 n.42, 393 n.63, 427 n.89
on AIDS activism, 408 n.18
Paul, William, 320
Pauling, Linus, 127 -128
Payne, Kenneth, 40 , 362 n.19, 381 n.19, 382 n.31
PCP (Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia), 218
among hemophiliacs, 56
PCR (polymerase chain reaction), 306
pentamidine, aerosolized, 218
Penthouse , 27
Perrow, Charles, 378 n.170
Petersen, James, 363 n.29, 369 n.80, 415 n.56, 441 n.63
on resource mobilization, 20
Petrow, Steven, 383 n.42
Phair, John, 338
pharmaceutical companies, 326 . See also specific companies
Philadelphia, incidence of AIDS in, 259
Phillips, David, 22
physicians. See doctors
Physicians for Human Rights, 54
Pickering, Andrew, 366 n.49
Pierret, Janine, 377 n.166, 378 n.170
Pinch, Trevor, 362 n.11, 366 n.49, 367 n.68, 375 n.153, 437 n.3, 439 n.37
on scientific controversy, 171
on value of experiments, 167
Pinching, Anthony, 309 -10
Pinn-Wiggins, Vivian, 262
placebos in clinical trials: activists' criticism of, 214
activists' support of, 251
function/effectiveness of, 250
vs . historical controls, 251
and noncompliance, 204
as unethical, 245
PNAS . See Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. See PCP
pneumonia, 147 . See also PCP
Poirier, Richard, 378 n.171
Policy Review (Heritage Foundation publication), 141
publishes Duesberg and Ellison article on risk-AIDS hypothesis, 138
polio vaccine, 201
Pollak, Michaël, 378 n.170
polymerase chain reaction. See PCR
poppers. See nitrite inhalants
Popular Health Movement, 205
Porter, Theodore M., 375 n.155, 410 n.53
power, microphysics of, 4
President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic, 218 -19
Preston, Richard, 436 n.149
prevention guidelines, 96 -97
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) , 358
refuses to publish Duesberg, 146
publishes Duesberg, 146
Proctor, Robert N., 362 n.9
professions: authority of, 268 -69
autonomy of, 269
logic of practice, 372 n.113
and the medical field, 23 -24
sociology of, 23 -24
programmed cell death, 155
Project AIDS International, 302
Project Inform (San Francisco), 299
on accelerated approval, 316
advocates early intervention, 243
criticizes AZT dissenters, 243
criticizes HIV dissenters, 159
on ddI licensing, 277
founding/goals of, 233 -34
Immune Restoration Think Tank, 320 -21
PI Perspectives , 243
receives funds from Burroughs Wellcome, 299 -300
researches Compound Q, 257 -58
on surrogate markers, 271 -72
promiscuity of gay men, as cause of AIDS, 63 -64
protease inhibitors, 323
Protocol 016 (AZT trial), 237
Protocol 019 (AZT trial), 237 -40
p24 (protein), 271
Public Health Service, 189
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), 185
Purtilo, David, 60
PWA Coalition, 217
PWA Health Group (New York City), 267