Overview
The riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic.
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Winner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literature
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT non-fiction
Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2017
How to Survive a Plague by David France is a social and scientific history of AIDS, and the grass-roots movement of activists, many of them facing their own life-or-death struggles, who grabbed the reins of scientific research to help develop the drugs that turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. Around the globe, the 15.8 million people taking anti-AIDS drugs today are alive thanks to their efforts.
Not since the publication of Randy Shilts''s now classic And the Band Played On in 1987 has a book sought to measure the AIDS plague in such brutally human, intimate, and soaring terms.
Weaving together the stories of dozens of individuals, this is an insider''s account of a pivotal moment in our history and one that changed the way that medical science is practised worldwide.
''This superbly written chronicle will stand as a towering work in its field'' - Sunday Times
''Inspiring, uplifting and necessary reading'' - Steve Silberman author of Neurotribes, Financial Times
- | Author: David France
- | Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- | Publication Date: Sep 21, 2017
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781509839407
- | ISBN-10: 1509839402
