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

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...  

看这本书，最重要的是抓住几条主线。 1.美国疾控中心（唐纳德·弗朗西斯）vs美国国家癌症研究所（罗伯特·加罗）vs法国巴斯德研究所（蒙塔尼耶和彻尔曼） 这条主线可以看出美法之间关于发现并分离艾滋病毒的争端，以加罗为首的人近乎蛮横地企图垄断这个病毒的发现和研究，这招...

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...  

用户评价

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。）

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......

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。

艾滋恐怕是所有疾病中与政治最密切挂钩的了，如果少数群体能得到更多的同理心、接受度和关注度，它本不会成为像现在这样令人生畏的杀手，与其说艾滋是上帝对同性恋的惩罚，不如说是上帝对大多数人冷漠麻木的惩罚……这本真的写得很好了，我还说怎么写得这么客观和有同理心，最后访谈里说是openly gay reporter……那没事儿了

美利坚也并没有那么美好，但是也要看到美利坚的厉害之处，那些在逆境中坚持研究的学者值得尊敬，官僚们的表现则令人厌恶。