Here was a plague
Tom Crewe, 27 September 2018
How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed Aids
by David France.
Picador, 624 pp., £12.99, September 2017,978 1 5098 3940 7 Show More
by David France.
Picador, 624 pp., £12.99, September 2017,
Patient Zero and the Making of the Aids Epidemic
by Richard A. McKay.
Chicago, 432 pp., £26.50, November 2017,978 0 226 06395 9 Show More
by Richard A. McKay.
Chicago, 432 pp., £26.50, November 2017,
Modern Nature: The Journals of Derek Jarman, 1989-90
by Derek Jarman.
Vintage, 314 pp., £9.99, May 2018,978 1 78487 387 5 Show More
by Derek Jarman.
Vintage, 314 pp., £9.99, May 2018,
Smiling in Slow Motion: The Journals of Derek Jarman, 1991-94
by Derek Jarman.
Vintage, 388 pp., £9.99, August 2018,978 1 78487 516 9 Show More
by Derek Jarman.
Vintage, 388 pp., £9.99, August 2018,
“... woman to man’. It encountered fierce criticism. The chief rabbi wrote to the health secretary, Norman Fowler: ‘Say plainly: Aids is the consequence of marital infidelity, premarital adventures, sexual deviation and social irresponsibility.’ Fowler later remembered that Margaret Thatcher’s ‘initial instinct was that this was not a big problem, and ... ”
