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And the band played on: POLITCS, PEOPLE AND THE AIDS EPIDEMIC
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Author:     Randy Shilts
ISBN:     9780140111309
Publisher:     Harmondsworth, England : Penguin, 1988, c1987.
Year of Publication:     1988
Edition:     1St.
Binding:     Paperback
Book Condition:     Used; good
And the band played on: POLITCS, PEOPLE AND THE AIDS EPIDEMIC
The author was the only american journalist to cover the Epidemic full time First Edition: 656 pages. Takes us through the first five years of unfolding epidemic and the responses - confusion and fear; denial and indifference, courage and determination. It's about polictics, people and the Aids epidemic. Browning to page edges. 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.
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