How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
- ISBN-10
- 0451493303
- ISBN-13
- 9780451493309
- Series
- How to Survive a Plague
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Pages
- 640
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-11-29
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- David France
Description
One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Decade A definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, here is the incredible story of the grassroots activists whose work turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. Almost universally ignored, these men and women learned to become their own researchers, lobbyists, and drug smugglers, established their own newspapers and research journals, and went on to force reform in the nation’s disease-fighting agencies. From the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary of the same name, How to Survive a Plague is an unparalleled insider’s account of a pivotal moment in the history of American civil rights.
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