How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed Aids
by David France
***Winner of the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction***
David France was a gay man living in New York City in the early 1980s. The book tells the story of how his social circle was decimated by the disease, but it also tells the story of how AIDS, ultimately and in the face of great prejudice, changed social attitudes towards homosexuality. On top of the personal and social story, he tells the industrial/science story of how big pharma and governments sought to come up with a cure for the disease.
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“This was a remarkable bookâquite a chunky one, with a hell of a story to tell. David France was a gay man living in New York in the early 1980s, a young man and therefore sexually active.” Read more...
