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.
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.
發表於2024-12-23
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這本書期待已久瞭,終於在去年12月份的時候齣版,譯文紀實係列的作品從大多從親曆者或者記者的角度齣發,通過自己的經曆,或大量的采訪和調研,為讀者還原故事的全景。這種體裁是很有價值的,它幫助我們站在更高的視角上全麵觀察艾滋病疫情鮮為人知的背後故事。 譯文紀實關於傳...
評分 評分 評分很難說是一種怎樣復雜的情感,這本書很多片段在2020年這個肺炎流行的春節假日裏有著類似的對照,仿佛相似劇情的又一次上演。我打開朋友圈或者微博都是鋪天蓋地的信息,或真或假,令我窒息又讓大多數人恐慌和憤怒。 迴到這本書,我們該譴責的是什麼呢?同性戀放蕩的...
評分很難說是一種怎樣復雜的情感,這本書很多片段在2020年這個肺炎流行的春節假日裏有著類似的對照,仿佛相似劇情的又一次上演。我打開朋友圈或者微博都是鋪天蓋地的信息,或真或假,令我窒息又讓大多數人恐慌和憤怒。 迴到這本書,我們該譴責的是什麼呢?同性戀放蕩的...
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評分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.
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