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Title: How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists & Scientists Tamed AIDS
Author: FRANCE DAVID
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/12/2016
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
The riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic 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 practiced worldwide.
ISBN: 9781509839391
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm
Pages: 640