具體描述
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.
作者簡介
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.
目錄資訊
讀後感
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...
評分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...
評分 評分很难说是一种怎样复杂的情感，这本书很多片段在2020年这个肺炎流行的春节假日里有着类似的对照，仿佛相似剧情的又一次上演。我打开朋友圈或者微博都是铺天盖地的信息，或真或假，令我窒息又让大多数人恐慌和愤怒。 回到这本书，我们该谴责的是什么呢？同性恋放荡的...
評分用戶評價
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。
评分這個書名太好瞭
评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。
评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。）
评分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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