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And the band played on : politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic / Randy Shilts

By: Shilts, Randy [author]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, [1987]Copyright date: ©1987Description: xxiii, 630 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0312009941; 9780312009946; 0312241356; 9780312241353Subject(s): 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 StatesDDC classification: 362.1/969792/00973 LOC classification: RA644.A25 | S48 1987RA644.A25 | S48 1987

Contents:

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 --

Awards: Gay and Lesbian Book Award (American Library Association), 1988Summary: An investigative account of the medical, sexual, and scientific questions surrounding the spread of AIDS across the country

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-613) and index

Acknowledgments -- Dramatis personae -- The bureaucracy -- Prologue -- part 1. Behold, a pale horse -- 1. The feast of the hearts -- part 2. Before : 1980 -- 2. Glory days -- 3. Beaches of the dispossessed -- 4. Foreshadowing -- 5. Freeze frames -- part 3. Paving the road : 1981 -- 6. Critical mass -- 7. Good intentions -- 8. The prettiest one -- 9. Ambush poppers -- 10. Golf courses of science -- 11. Bad moon rising -- part 4. The gathering darkness : 1982 -- 12. Enemy time-- 13. Patient Zero -- 14. Bicentennial memories -- 15. Nightsweats -- 16. Too much blood -- 17. Entropy -- 18. Running on empty -- 19. Forced feeding -- 20. Dirty secrets -- 21. Dancing in the dark -- part 5. Battle lines : January-June 1983 -- 22. Let it bleed -- 23. Midnight confessions -- 24. Denial -- 25. Anger -- 26. The big enchilada -- 27. Turning points -- 28. Only the good -- 29. Priorities -- 30. Meanwhile -- 31. AIDSpeak spoken here -- 32. Star quality -- part 6. Rituals : July-December 1983 -- 33. Marathons -- 34. Just another day -- 35. Politics -- 36. Science -- 37. Public health -- 38. Journalism -- 39. People -- part 7. Lights and tunnels : 1984 -- 40. Prisoners -- 41. Bargaining -- 42. The feast of the hearts, part 2 -- 43. Squeeze play -- 44. Traitors -- 45. Political science -- 46. Downbound train -- 47. Republicans and Democrats -- 48. Embarrassed -- 49. Depression -- 50. The war -- part 8. The butcher's bill : 1985 -- 51. Heterosexuals -- 52. Exiles -- 53. Reckoning -- 54. Exposed -- 55. Awakening -- 56. Acceptance -- 57. Endgame -- part 9. Epilogue : After -- 58. Reunion -- 59. The feast of hearts, part 3 -- Notes on sources -- Index

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