Shilts, Randy,

And the band played on : politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic / Randy Shilts - xxiii, 630 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-613) and index

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 2 -- 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 hearts, part 3 -- Notes on sources -- part 1. 1. part 2. 2. 3. 4. 5. part 3. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. part 4. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. part 5. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. part 6. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. part 7. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. part 8. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. part 9. 58. 59. Index

An investigative account of the medical, sexual, and scientific questions surrounding the spread of AIDS across the country

Gay and Lesbian Book Award (American Library Association), 1988

0312009941 9780312009946 0312241356 9780312241353

87016528


Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
Centers for Disease Control


AIDS (Disease)--History
AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--United States
AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--United States
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history.
Sociology.
Public Policy.
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome


United States.

RA644.A25 / S48 1987 RA644.A25 / S48 1987

362.1/969792/00973

WD 308 / S556a 1987

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