Can I read How to survive a plague : the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS on EtoBox?

How to survive a plague : the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS by France, David is a health book available to read on EtoBox.

What is How to survive a plague : the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS about?

"Shortly after David France arrived in New York in 1978, the newspaper articles announcing a new cancer specific to gay men seemed more a jab at his new community than a genuine warning. Just three years later, he was reporting on the first signs of what would become an epidemic. Intimately reported, suspenseful, devastating, and finally inspiring, this is the story of the men and women who watched their friends and lovers fall, ignored by public officials, religious leaders, and the nation at large. Confronted with shame and hatred, they chose to fight, starting protests, rallying a diverse community that had just begun to taste liberation in order to demand their right to live. We witness the founding of ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group), the rise of an underground drug market in opposition to the prohibitively expensive (and sometimes toxic) AZT, and the gradual movement toward a lifesaving medical breakthrough. Throughout, France's unparalleled access to this community immerses us in the lives of extraordinary characters, including the closeted Wall Street trader turned activist; the prominent NIH immunologist with a contentious but enduring relationship with ACT UP; the

Who reads How to survive a plague : the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS?

Author

France, David

Publisher

Picador

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781509839384

Category

health

Rating

4.4 / 5 (686 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14