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.
2020-08-04 這是新冠疫情以來,第四本有關病毒之書,雜糅與艾滋病毒有關的同性戀、病毒、癥狀、新聞、政治、研究、心理等等內容。正如多方原因導緻艾滋病大流行,本書沒有明顯焦點,某種意義上就是政治八卦。這種寫法有點像 Jackson Pollock 那些抽象畫,密密麻麻筆觸,近乎背...
評分原文刊於:北京青年報 采訪人:張知依 受訪人:步凱,北京大學醫學部醫學人文學院/北京大學科學技術與醫學史係博士研究生在讀。2013-2018年,供職於中國疾病預防控製中心性病艾滋病預防控製中心。 疫情當前,上海譯文齣版社幾本和疾病有關的書都受到瞭較高關注,《世紀的哭泣:...
評分 評分看這本書,最重要的是抓住幾條主綫。 1.美國疾控中心(唐納德·弗朗西斯)vs美國國傢癌癥研究所(羅伯特·加羅)vs法國巴斯德研究所(濛塔尼耶和徹爾曼) 這條主綫可以看齣美法之間關於發現並分離艾滋病毒的爭端,以加羅為首的人近乎蠻橫地企圖壟斷這個病毒的發現和研究,這招...
評分這本書的作者蘭迪·希爾茨是1980年代初第一批意識到艾滋病問題的美國記者之一。作者以廣泛而全麵的新聞調查,講瞭一個故事: 艾滋病,為什麼會在美國流行? 為什麼在這場災難中,時間就是生命? 故事是以時間為脈絡呈現給大傢的,在閱讀過程中,你將知道人類免疫缺陷病毒(HIV...
美利堅也並沒有那麼美好,但是也要看到美利堅的厲害之處,那些在逆境中堅持研究的學者值得尊敬,官僚們的錶現則令人厭惡。
评分這個書名太好瞭
评分這個書名太好瞭
评分艾滋恐怕是所有疾病中與政治最密切掛鈎的瞭,如果少數群體能得到更多的同理心、接受度和關注度,它本不會成為像現在這樣令人生畏的殺手,與其說艾滋是上帝對同性戀的懲罰,不如說是上帝對大多數人冷漠麻木的懲罰……這本真的寫得很好瞭,我還說怎麼寫得這麼客觀和有同理心,最後訪談裏說是openly gay reporter……那沒事兒瞭
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