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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic Specs:
Product Name
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
Manufacturer
St. Martin's Press
Product Number MPN
0312241356
Retail Price
$16.95
EAN-14
09780312241353
UPC
978031224135
Specifications
Title
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
ISBN
0312241356
Author(s)
William Greider, Randy Shilts
Release Date
2000-04-09
Format
Paperback
Num of Pages
656
Num. of Items
1
EAN
9780312241353
Weight
0.5 lbs.
Deal first added on:
16-February-2004
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Latest 6 Reviews Here is what people are saying about the And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
"Had to put it down."
2009-09-12
- Reviewed By User: A3FX8SUJD3XJFD
I am a 42--year-old gay male who has been out for twenty-three years. I just got around to reading this book this past summer. I'd read a sample of it online and it caught my eye. I really wanted to like because I know what an important work it is. Unfortunately I had to put it down after about two hundred pages. I don't know why exactly--Mr. Shilts certainly could write. I don't know, I just lost interest in it. I stopped forcing myself to finish books because they were "important" or "classic" a long time ago.
"Engaging book"
2009-08-18
- Reviewed By User: A1WFYSNVIZM5O
My opinion might be a bit biased, since I am the type of person who finds epidemiology and public health facinating.
That being said, this book does a wonderfull job of discribing the events and people involved in the AIDS epidemic. The book is set up chronologically, so the reader gets a sense of how disconnected the efforts were to figure out the cause of the disease.
"history of our times"
2009-04-18
- Reviewed By User: A1NHK6MN1MNE8N
This was a book that had to be written. It also had to be written by Randy Shilts. It's a fantastic book and a history come alive for those who don't remember the dark days of the beginning of AIDS. I was led to this book a second time after reading The Mayor of Castro Street - the inspiration of the movie Milk. The first time I read And The Band Played On was when it was first published. I read it to get a better idea of what had happened, what were the facts of the onset of the plague and how was the community really affected. This time I was able to read it with more distance and it was a brilliant history and evoked a time long gone. It was a perfect follow on from The Mayor of Castro Street and the two are a briliant history of the times, complete with the characters that made the community what is was. For anyone under 40 the book will give a history of something they are totally unfamiliar with. For those over, it will be a rich reminder.
"And the Band Played on by Randy shilts"
2009-02-07
- Reviewed By User: A28F2ARFCECPR3
I was a very informable book We have added it to our school library for students to read.
"Review: And The Band Played On..."
2009-02-02
- Reviewed By User: A392TZEFET5IHJ
This product shipped rather quickly and when it arrived, it was in exactly the shape that I had thought it would be. Good purchase for the wonderful price.
I've been re-reading some of my favourite old friends and this book jumped into my hand not long ago. I remember reading it when it was first published and being impressed with Randy Shilts' clean narrative style and the quality of his storytelling. So many years after AIDS has become a matter of fact in world life, I wondered if the book would still have an impact. And it does. But instead of the gut-punch of that early reading, there remains a simmering anger at all of the ignorance that attended the early dissemination of AIDS and its subsequent discovery. And Shilts didn't let anyone escape unscathed. He lowered his guns and took on the gay community, the Reagan health officials, the Red Cross, the Centers for Disease Control, and even some of the victims themselves.
With the eradication of smallpox and a ubiquitous vaccination protocol, the world health community was feeling pretty good about its ability to handle widespread health issues and it was generally felt that the world had seen its last pandemic. Perhaps nothing could have prepared them for the onset of AIDS, but there were fatal mistakes made at nearly every turn in the early handling of AIDS. As a social issue, what was earlier called "gay cancer", might have been fought more fiercely if it had been understood to be a health issue for the world at large instead of just the gay community. And, so very sadly, the actions of Patient Zero (Gaetan Dugas, a French-Canadian flight attendant), helped to start the wildfire that became the pandemic. He was so furious at having been infected that he set out to spread the disease as far and wide as he could in revenge.
Perhaps nothing could have actually stopped the wildfire, but there were so many preventable mistakes, and Shilts parceled out the blame with excellent research and reason. But more than that, we got to know real people who fought the disease, as victims and researchers, and, as the book progressed, AIDS began to have a face.
We seem to have settled into a certain comfort level with AIDS now, even though it is thought to have killed approximately 2 million people as recently as 2007, 300,00 of them children. And, sadly, Randy Shilts died of AIDS in 1994. It would have been interesting to see what he did with a sequel.
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"Had to put it down."
"Engaging book"
"history of our times"