And the Band Played On

出版者:Stonewall Inn Editions

作者:Randy Shilts

页数:630

出版时间:2000-04-09

价格:USD 16.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780312241353

具体描述

By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this epidemic allowed to spread so far before it was taken seriously? In answering these questions, Shilts weaves the disparate threads into a coherent story, pinning down every evasion and contradiction at the highest levels of the medical, political, and media establishments.

Shilts shows that the epidemic spread wildly because the federal government put budget ahead of the nation's welfare; health authorities placed political expediency before the public health, and scientists were often more concerned with international prestige than saving lives. Against this backdrop, Shilts tells the heroic stories of individuals in science and politics, public health and the gay community, who struggled to alert the nation to the enormity of the danger it faced. And the Band Played On is both a tribute to these heroic people and a stinging indictment of the institutions that failed the nation so badly.

作者简介

RANDY SHILTS was one of the first journalists to recognize AIDS as an important national issue and, in the early 1980s, he began to report on AIDS full time for the San Francisco Chronicle, making him the only journalist to do so. He was also the author of The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk and Conduct Unbecoming: Gay and Lesbians in the U.S. Military. Shilts died of AIDS-related complications in early 1994.

读后感

原文刊于：北京青年报 采访人：张知依 受访人：步凯，北京大学医学部医学人文学院/北京大学科学技术与医学史系博士研究生在读。2013-2018年，供职于中国疾病预防控制中心性病艾滋病预防控制中心。 疫情当前，上海译文出版社几本和疾病有关的书都受到了较高关注，《世纪的哭泣：...  

用户评价

这个书名太好了

值得一看 除了实在是很长 除了依照时间顺序详尽揭露了艾滋病前期发展的历史 还传达出了太多很有意思的和值得思考的现象 | 另外Robert Gallo真的是在一群killers中最贱的人了

这个书名太好了

I can't help but think maybe the history is repeating itself. What‘s happened in the US feels so familiar. The Trump administration's response to covid-19 in the early days of the outbreak was almost parallel to that of Reagan's.

20多年前读过的，当时在一家艾滋病研究中心工作。而今物是人非了......