How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS by David France

How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS

David France

640 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction health history lgbtqia+ emotional informative slow-paced

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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 ...

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