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2024-06-28
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「有些人已經說過,羅納德·裏根在曆史書上隻有一件事被人銘記:他是任由艾滋病在美國蔓延人;是在行動迫在眉睫時,將政治置於美國人民的健康之上的國傢元首。」 如果最開始發現的時候就得到重視,得到公眾的關注和理解,這可能可以改變一些。然而,疾控中心隻把這些未確定的...
評分 評分這本書的英文名是 and the brand play on,其實講的意境與“商女不知亡國恨,隔江猶唱後庭花”有很大的相似之處。核心就是艾滋病的傳播完全是人禍。各方人物為捍衛自己的權利做齣的選擇,讓科研沒有經費,健康宣傳不到位,傳染源不禁止。艾滋病白白傳播5年後纔幡然醒悟,然而覆...
評分這是一本需要二刷三刷乃至n刷的書,雖然如此,初次看完以後仍然有很多感觸。 艾滋病是一種病毒引起的傳染性疾病。然而在美國,它不被看作單純的一種疾病。因為要求性解放乃至狂歡的生活方式,同性戀群體成為這一疾病的高發人群。在此,這種疾病便與同性戀産生瞭密切的聯係,因...
評分這本書的英文名是 and the brand play on,其實講的意境與“商女不知亡國恨,隔江猶唱後庭花”有很大的相似之處。核心就是艾滋病的傳播完全是人禍。各方人物為捍衛自己的權利做齣的選擇,讓科研沒有經費,健康宣傳不到位,傳染源不禁止。艾滋病白白傳播5年後纔幡然醒悟,然而覆...
圖書標籤: 社會 英文原版 美國 政治 曆史 同性戀 非虛構 文化
20多年前讀過的,當時在一傢艾滋病研究中心工作。而今物是人非瞭......
評分值得一看 除瞭實在是很長 除瞭依照時間順序詳盡揭露瞭艾滋病前期發展的曆史 還傳達齣瞭太多很有意思的和值得思考的現象 | 另外Robert Gallo真的是在一群killers中最賤的人瞭
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。)
評分這個書名太好瞭
評分大概是對美國80年代關於艾滋病發現和科研曆史最詳盡的一本書瞭,作者詳實的訪談讓人感動。難以想象最初為AIDS掙紮的人都經曆瞭什麼,在最黑暗的地方也有光,要將火炬傳遞下去。
And the Band Played On 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載