David france how to survive a plague7/7/2023 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. 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. Around the globe, the 15.8 million people taking anti-AIDS drugs today are alive thanks to their efforts. How to Survive a Plague 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. Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2017 Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT non-fiction His documentary How to Survive A Plague was a 2012 Oscars nominee, won a Directors Guild Award and a Peabody Award, and was. He is a contributing editor to New York magazine and has also written for the New York Times. Winner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literature David France is the author of Our Fathers, a book about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal, which Showtime adapted into a film. Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction The riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic.
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