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：...  

不知道为什么，书看到一半的时候，脑海里冒出这么一段词句，“ 东风恶，欢情薄。[一怀愁绪]，几年离索。错、错、错。” 用在这里和原文的意境相差甚远，估计陆游要隔着1千多年的时空，把我贬的一无是处，我还听不太懂。 总体而言，这本书记录了 人类，尤其是美国人在艾滋病初期...  

2019年底，上海译文出版社推出“译文纪实”系列新作品——《世纪的哭泣》中文版。这本将近750页的书，其厚度在“译文纪实”书系里可谓一枝独秀，被很多读者列为“2020开年阅读第一战”。 而突如其来的疫情，也让这本书收获了意料之外的关注，很多读者纷纷购入这本厚厚的纪实作...  

用户评价

这个书名太好了

大概是对美国80年代关于艾滋病发现和科研历史最详尽的一本书了，作者详实的访谈让人感动。难以想象最初为AIDS挣扎的人都经历了什么，在最黑暗的地方也有光，要将火炬传递下去。

这本大概是对艾滋的历史最全面深入的解剖了。也只有Randy SHILTS能写出这样的作品—Access和Empathy！如果我是editor，我唯一的建议是600页的内容其实是可以再浓缩的。（有Hiroshima做先例，任何non-fiction都应该有被浓缩在两百页以内依然是masterpiece的自信。）

大概是对美国80年代关于艾滋病发现和科研历史最详尽的一本书了，作者详实的访谈让人感动。难以想象最初为AIDS挣扎的人都经历了什么，在最黑暗的地方也有光，要将火炬传递下去。

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......