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Crisis: Heterosexual Behavior in the Age of AIDS, by William H. Masters, MD, Virginia E. Johnson, and Robert C. Kolodny, MD (Grove, 243 pp., $15.95)

Rarely has a book on an important public-health issue, written by a team of qualified and responsible researchers, come under such swift attack from members of the medical establishment, both in and out of government. Although he was in London attending a conference when Crisis was released, U.S. Surgeon General Everett Koop immediately accused its authors of employing “scare tactics” and went on to call the book “irresponsible” and say it might cause “hysteria.” Dr. Mathilde Krim, founding Chairwoman of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, called it “needlessly alarming.”

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Crisis: Heterosexual Behavior in the Age of AIDS, by William H. Masters, MD, Virginia E. Johnson, and Robert C. Kolodny, MD (Grove, 243 pp., $15.95)

Rarely has a book on an important public-health issue, written by a team of qualified and responsible researchers, come under such swift attack from members of the medical establishment, both in and out of government. Although he was in London attending a conference when Crisis was released, U.S. Surgeon General Everett Koop immediately accused its authors of employing “scare tactics” and went on to call the book “irresponsible” and say it might cause “hysteria.” Dr. Mathilde Krim, founding Chairwoman of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, called it “needlessly alarming.”