How AIDS Activists Challenged America and Saved the FDA from Itself

by James Driscoll

Book Overview

In this extraordinary history, James Driscoll reveals the untold story of how AIDS activists, by thwarting bureaucratic plans imposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), both saved HIV patients and rescued the FDA itself from a self-inflicted public health catastrophe.

By 1996, accelerated approval of AIDS drug cocktails transformed AIDS from a death sentence to a manageable disease. That approval, however, came only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680531425
• ISBN13: 9781680531428
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Academica Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"