Description
| Product ID: | 9781509839407 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | How to Survive a Plague |
| Subtitle: | The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS |
| Authors: | Author: David France |
| Page Count: | 640 |
| Subjects: | Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, HIV / AIDS: social aspects |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating How to Survive a Plague is a social and scientific history of AIDS. <p><b>The riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic.</b><br><br><b>Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction</b><br><b>Winner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literature</b><br><b>Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT non-fiction<br>Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2017</b><br><br><i>How to Survive a Plague</i> 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.<br><br>Not since the publication of Randy Shilts's now classic <i>And the Band Played On</i> in 1987 has a book sought to measure the AIDS plague in such brutally human, intimate, and soaring terms.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>'This superbly written chronicle will stand as a towering work in its field' - <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>'Inspiring, uplifting and necessary reading' - Steve Silberman author of <i>Neurotribes</i>, <i>Financial Times</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-09-21 |
