BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

    (By Randy Shilts)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 22 MB (22,081 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 598 times
    Last checked 9 Hour ago!
    Author Randy Shilts
    “Book Descriptions:
    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.

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

    ★★★★★

    David France

    Book 1

    A Glastonbury Romance

    ★★★★★

    John Cowper Powys

    Book 1

    Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir

    ★★★★★

    Paul Monette

    Book 1

    When We Rise: My Life in the Movement

    ★★★★★

    Cleve Jones

    Book 1

    The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

    ★★★★★

    Richard Preston

    Book 1

    Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

    ★★★★★

    David Quammen

    Book 1

    Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

    ★★★★★

    David Quammen

    Book 1

    A Short History of Trans Misogyny

    ★★★★★

    Jules Gill-Peterson

    Book 1

    Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts—One Conversation at a Time

    ★★★★★

    Susan Scott