10242cam a2201009 4500 289943142 TxAuBib 20170419120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780451493309 0451493303 B01CMH15DE Amazon 207bdcb6-5e28-4b4c-b436-5d527072fac7 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2754190 OverDrive (Product ID) 209900 2754190 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib France, David. How to Survive a Plague [Libby] : The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016. greenwich village. AIDS. politics. homophobia. activism. Homosexual. HIV. american history. NIH. 1990s. Civil Rights. Gay. LGBTQ. Documentary. new york city. LGBT. 1980s. Epidemic. FDA. act up. azt. lgbtiq. aids coalition to unleash power. anthony fauci. david barr. david france. derek link. dr. linda laubenstein. ed koch. global aids pandemic. hiv/aids epidemic. international aids conference. larry kramer. mark harrington. our fathers. paul popham. peter staley. rodger mcfarlane. spencer cox. the village. treatment action group. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 55MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 55MB. Health & Fitness. History. Nonfiction. "Extraordinary... A sweeping social history, a bracing act of in-depth journalism, and a searingly honest memoir all at once... A chronicle of the recent past that sheds light on the fights to come... The chaotic, contentious, painful form of hope offered in this book is vital even as the fight it chronicles remains unfinished.". HTML:Slate. "David France managed to simultaneously break my heart and rekindle my anger in just the first few pages of his breathtakingly important new book... Riveting.". HTML:Steven Petrow, The Washington Post. HTML:"A moving and an enraging read.". HTML:Bookforum. "Masterful... [France] knows how to tell a story.". HTML:EDGE Boston. HTML:"Powerful... This superbly written chronicle will stand as a towering work in its field, the best book on the pre-treatment years of the epidemic since Randy Shilts's And The Band Played On... Most of the people to whom it bears witness are not around to read it, but millions are alive today thanks to their efforts, and this moving record will ensure their legacy does not die with them.". HTML:Sunday Times. "[A] subtle and searing history of this late-20th century plague and those who survived it... [The] great advantage France has is that... he was an eyewitness to many of the key moments during the spread of the disease and... shared in activists' pain and suffering.". HTML:The Observer. "Prepare to have your heart buoyed and broken in this riveting account... In unflinching, brutally honest detail, France traces the lives of the people behind the constellations of aid and advocacy movements and presents their struggles in a way that will have readers stirred by each diagnosis, cheering the efforts to find a cure, and growing frustrated at the political establishments that ignored the terrible tragedy as it unfolded... This highly engaging account is a must-read for anyone interested in epidemiology, civil rights, gay rights, public health, and American history.". HTML:Library Journal, starred review. "David France brilliantly chronicles AIDS in America during the 1980s and 1990s... Powerful... American history, memoir, public health, and a call-to-action are perfectly and passionately blended here. Spectacular and soulful.". HTML:Booklist, starred review. HTML:"A lucid, urgent updating of Randy Shilts' And the Band Played On (1987) and a fine work of social history.". HTML:Kirkus. HTML:"Heroic and heartbreaking and magnificent history throughout, How to Survive a Plague is one of the great tales of our time: the story of incredibly brave and determined men and women who defied government, the pharmaceutical industry, vicious homophobia, and the death sentence of AIDS to overwhelm an awful scourge. These gay activists--refusing to die without a fight--were vital in staunching the epidemic. Their resistance and cunning will remain as seminal to medical history and humanity as the efforts of Pasteur and Salk.". Carl Bernstein. "David France is uniquely positioned to bear witness to the science and politics of the AIDS epidemic, its deeply personal impact, and the activists who refused to be silenced by it: courageous and brilliant, often selfless, willing to fight even as they struggle with death, but always fully human. From the story's beginning, France was on the ground doing hard-hitting reporting on the plague while living its toll in the m. Rebecca Skloot. HTML:Starred review from December 12, 2016 Journalist France (Our Fathers) illuminates the origins and progress of the fight against AIDS in this moving mix of memoir and reportage, a companion book to his eponymous Academy Awardânominated 2012 documentary. He covers a revolution in drug development that occurred as patients, for the first time, "joined in the search for their own salvation." France begins in 1981, when a buried New York Times story first identified a "Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals," and continues through 1996, when a medical system transformed by activism delivered treatments that rendered AIDS a manageable illness. He juxtaposes his personal involvement with that of a group of self-proclaimed "HIVIPs," key ACT UP leaders from their Treatment + Data Committee whose collective mission was getting the medical establishment to put "drugs into bodies." Eventually, ACT UP became unwieldy and the group spun-off into the Treatment Action Group. France shares with passion and pathos the personal battles of these activists, offering both plaudits and opprobrium to an array of players who constituted the fabric of the community. As important as Randy Shilts's And the Band Played On was in 1987, France's work is a must-read for a new generation of empowered patients, informed medical practitioners, and challenged caregiversâlest history repeat itself. . Publisher's Weekly. HTML:The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic—from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague. A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a life-or-death struggle, who seized upon scientific research to help develop the drugs that turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. Ignored by public officials, religious leaders, and the nation at large, and confronted with shame and hatred, this small group of men and women chose to fight for their right to live by educating themselves and demanding to become full partners in the race for effective treatments. Around the globe, 16 million people are alive today thanks to their efforts. Not since the publication of Randy Shilts's classic And the Band Played On has a book measured the AIDS plague in such brutally human, intimate, and soaring terms. In dramatic fashion, we witness the founding of ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group), and the rise of an underground drug market in opposition to the prohibitively expensive (and sometimes toxic) AZT. We watch as these activists learn to become their own researchers, lobbyists, drug smugglers, and clinicians, establishing their own newspapers, research journals, and laboratories, and as they go on to force reform in the nation's disease-fighting agencies. With his unparalleled access to this community David France illuminates the lives of extraordinary characters, including the closeted Wall Street trader-turned-activist, the high school dropout who found purpose battling pharmaceutical giants in New York, the South African physician who helped establish the first officially recognized buyers' club at the height of the epidemic, and the public relations executive fighting to save his own life for the sake of his young daughter. Expansive yet richly detailed, this is an insider's account of a pivotal moment in the history of American civil rights. Powerful, heart-wrenching, and finally exhilarating, How to Survive a Plague is destined to become an essential part of the literature of AIDS. From the Hardcover edition.. Media Type: eBook. Stonewall Book Award - Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award. 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