cover image As Real as It Gets: The Life of a Hospital at the Center of the AIDS Epidemic

As Real as It Gets: The Life of a Hospital at the Center of the AIDS Epidemic

Carol Pogash. Plume Books, $9.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-452-27127-2

Pogash's profile of San Francisco's General Hospital, a pioneer in the research and treatment of AIDS, provides a vivid and moving account of the medical and human dimensions of the disease. (Jan.)