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2025-02-26
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不知道為什麼,書看到一半的時候,腦海裏冒齣這麼一段詞句,“ 東風惡,歡情薄。[一懷愁緒],幾年離索。錯、錯、錯。” 用在這裏和原文的意境相差甚遠,估計陸遊要隔著1韆多年的時空,把我貶的一無是處,我還聽不太懂。 總體而言,這本書記錄瞭 人類,尤其是美國人在艾滋病初期...
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評分不知道為什麼,書看到一半的時候,腦海裏冒齣這麼一段詞句,“ 東風惡,歡情薄。[一懷愁緒],幾年離索。錯、錯、錯。” 用在這裏和原文的意境相差甚遠,估計陸遊要隔著1韆多年的時空,把我貶的一無是處,我還聽不太懂。 總體而言,這本書記錄瞭 人類,尤其是美國人在艾滋病初期...
圖書標籤: 社會 英文原版 美國 政治 曆史 同性戀 非虛構 文化
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評分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。
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.
評分這本大概是對艾滋的曆史最全麵深入的解剖瞭。也隻有Randy SHILTS能寫齣這樣的作品—Access和Empathy!如果我是editor,我唯一的建議是600頁的內容其實是可以再濃縮的。(有Hiroshima做先例,任何non-fiction都應該有被濃縮在兩百頁以內依然是masterpiece的自信。)
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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