How to Survive a Plague is the book for both generations. Informative, entertaining, suspenseful, moving, and personal.Įdmund White As one generation grows up with the misconception that AIDS is nothing more than a manageable illness, another grows old with the fear that the epidemic's early days will disappear into the fog of history.
How to Survive a Plague is epoch-making: the whole social and scientific history of AIDS, brilliantly told. 'Inspiring, uplifting and necessary reading' - Steve Silberman author of Neurotribes, Financial Times
'This superbly written chronicle will stand as a towering work in its field' - Sunday Times 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 Winner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literature Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction The riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic.
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