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.
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.
这本书期待已久了,终于在去年12月份的时候出版,译文纪实系列的作品从大多从亲历者或者记者的角度出发,通过自己的经历,或大量的采访和调研,为读者还原故事的全景。这种体裁是很有价值的,它帮助我们站在更高的视角上全面观察艾滋病疫情鲜为人知的背后故事。 译文纪实关于传...
评分《世纪的哭泣》原著题目是“And the Band Played On”,让人联想到杜牧的诗句:商女不知亡国恨,隔江犹唱后庭花。书问世以后,许多人问兰迪·希尔兹为何取此书名,他解释道,“照常营业”的时髦说法而已——其实这是一句歌词,在美国乐队“The Temptation”1970年的作品“Ball ...
评分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...
评分2020-08-04 这是新冠疫情以来,第四本有关病毒之书,杂糅与艾滋病毒有关的同性恋、病毒、症状、新闻、政治、研究、心理等等内容。正如多方原因导致艾滋病大流行,本书没有明显焦点,某种意义上就是政治八卦。这种写法有点像 Jackson Pollock 那些抽象画,密密麻麻笔触,近乎背...
评分对一个免疫性疾病的患者来说,对渗透在字里行间的恐惧、无奈、坦然、勇气和尊严,没有一样不感同身受。 我自己病了,虽然难过却不曾哭泣,这么多年早已坦然面对。 但是我看不得别人病了,因为会更容易共情,书中的文字让我几度落泪,情难自已。 我更看不得社会病了,因为本可以...
通过本书 将知道人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV)和获得性免疫综合征(AIDS)是如何在美国发现并扩散的 将看到影响艾滋病的大量事件及各种人物 尤其是政府部门、医疗及研究机构、同性恋组织、媒体中的个体 作者在刻画人类的懦弱、绝望、自私、贪婪的同时 也呈现了人类在面对死亡时的勇气、进取、无私和悲悯 最后以史为鉴打脸提醒:如果一种致命的新疫情蔓延 国家在那一刻没有任何理由推卸责任 而监督政府研究人员和公共卫生部门是否尽职的 本该是最富攻击性的媒体 大众的「看门狗」各中意味 自行体会
评分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......
评分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......
评分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。)
评分值得一看 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
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