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Description of  The Sounds of Furious Living: Everyday Unorthodoxies in an Era of AIDS (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

Four decades have passed since reports of a mysterious gay cancer first appeared in US newspapers. In the ensuing years, the pandemic that would come to be called AIDS changed the world in innumerable ways. It also gave rise to one of the late twentieth centurys largest health-based empowerment movements. Scholars across diverse traditions have documented the rise of the AIDS activist movement, chronicling the impassioned echoes of protestors who took to the streets to demand drugs into bodies. Read more