How to survive a plague the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS

"From the creator of and inspired by the seminal documentary of the same name--an Oscar nominee--the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful, heroic stories of the gay activists who refused to die without a fight. Intimately reported, this is the...

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Main Author: France, David, 1959- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • When it rains, it pours. Independence Day ; Early thinking ; Compromised ; Doubt all things ; A man reaps what he sows
  • Incurable romantics. Life, apparently ; Paranoid fantasies ; Testing limits ; Warfare
  • An ounce of prevention. The barricades, 1987 ; Things fall apart ; Terminal velocity ; Against nature ; Denial ; Madness
  • Revolt of the guinea pigs. New beginnings ; Days of desperation ; Life ; The old days
  • Epilogue: For dear life.