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.
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「有些人已经说过,罗纳德·里根在历史书上只有一件事被人铭记:他是任由艾滋病在美国蔓延人;是在行动迫在眉睫时,将政治置于美国人民的健康之上的国家元首。」 如果最开始发现的时候就得到重视,得到公众的关注和理解,这可能可以改变一些。然而,疾控中心只把这些未确定的...
評分我……哇的哭出来,太难受了,看完我一天没看书。 其实我刚开始看的时候,就知道全球艾滋病患者目前已经超过七千万了。但那是统计数据,和真正看到这件事情怎么发生,完全不一样。 他们是比尔,盖瑞,尼克,保罗,他们是和我们一样有名字的人。我看着他们努力,但我知道,他们...
評分2019年底,上海译文出版社推出“译文纪实”系列新作品——《世纪的哭泣》中文版。这本将近750页的书,其厚度在“译文纪实”书系里可谓一枝独秀,被很多读者列为“2020开年阅读第一战”。 而突如其来的疫情,也让这本书收获了意料之外的关注,很多读者纷纷购入这本厚厚的纪实作...
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
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
评分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......
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