And the Band Played On Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic

Name: And the Band Played On Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic
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ISBN: 9780140113693

ISBN-10: 014011369X

ISBN-13: 9780140113693

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Authors: Randy Shilts

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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 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…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 10/4/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 672
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Dramatis Personae


The Bureaucracy


Prologue



Behold, A Pale Horse



The Feast of the Hearts



Before/1980



Glory Days



Beaches of the Dispossessed



Foreshadowing



Freeze Frames



Paving the Road/1981



Critical Mass



Good Intentions



The Prettiest One



Ambush Poppers



Golf Courses of Science



Bad Moon Rising



The Gathering Darkness/1982



Enemy Time



Patient Zero



Bicentennial Memories



Nightsweats



Too Much Blood



Entropy



Running on Empty



Forced Feeding



Dirty Secrets



Dancing in the Dark



Battle Lines/January-June 1983



Let It Bleed



Midnight Confessions



Denial



Anger



The Big Enchilada



Turning Points



Only the Good



Priorities



Meanwhile



AIDSpeak Spoken Here



Star Quality



Rituals/July-December 1983



Marathons



Just Another Day



Politics



Science



Public Health



Journalism



People



Lights and Tunnels/1984



Prisoners



Bargaining



The Feast of the Hearts, Part II



Squeeze Play



Traitors



Political Science



Downbound Train



Republicans and Democrats



Embarrassed



Depression



The War



The Butcher's Bill/1985



Heterosexuals



Exiles



Reckoning



Exposed



Awakening



Acceptance



Endgame



Epilogue/After



Reunion



The Feast of the Hearts, Part III


Notes on Sources


Index