![]() ![]() “I had only one science class at K, and I had to take it twice,” he told Elaine Ezekiel in May 2013. A mysterious disease was killing many people around him, and no one was writing about it. The answer, David articulates in his history, is a courage that not only ended a plague but also revolutionized medicine, a kind of courage as remarkable as it is rare in human history.Īfter graduating from K with a degree in political science, David moved to New York City to study philosophy at the New school. ![]() “David France’s remarkable book tries to answer that question.” ![]() “A question has always hung over the reaction of gay men to the plague that terrorized and decimated them in the 1980s and 1990s: Why did they not surrender?,” writes Sullivan. On November 21, the New York Times published a rave review of the work by writer and former editor of the New Republic Andrew Sullivan. In May of 2013 alumnus David France ’81 returned to Kalamazoo College’s campus to present his Oscar-nominated documentary “How to Survive a Plague.” David has recently written and published a book of the same title, How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS. ![]()
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