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And the band played on : politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic / Randy Shilts.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shilts, Randy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease)--History.
- AIDS (Disease).
- History.
- AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--United States.
- AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--United States.
- AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.
- AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.).
- Centers for Disease Control (U.S.).
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history.
- Sociology.
- Public Policy.
- Síndrome de Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida (SIDA)--Aspectos sociales--EE.UU.
- Medical Subjects:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history.
- Sociology.
- Public Policy.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Síndrome de Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida (SIDA)--Aspectos sociales--EE.UU.
- Genre:
- History.
- Annotations (Provenance) -- 20th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 630 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, [1987]
- Summary:
- An investigative account of the medical, sexual, and scientific questions surrounding the spread of AIDS across the country.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Dramatis personae
- The bureaucracy
- Prologue
- pt. 1. Behold, a pale horse
- 1. The feast of the hearts
- pt. 2. Before : 1980
- 2. Glory days
- 3. Beaches of the dispossessed
- 4. Foreshadowing
- 5. Freeze frames
- pt. 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
- pt. 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
- pt. 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
- pt. 6. Rituals : July-December 1983
- 33. Marathons
- 34. Just another day
- 35. Politics
- 36. Science
- 37. Public health
- 38. Journalism
- 39. People
- pt. 7. Lights & 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
- pt. 8. The butcher's bill : 1985
- 51. Heterosexuals
- 52. Exiles
- 53. Reckoning
- 54. Exposed
- 55. Awakening
- 56. Acceptance
- 57. Endgame
- pt. 9. Epilogue : After
- 58. Reunion
- 59. The feast of hearts, part 3
- Notes on sources
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-613) and index.
- Gay and Lesbian Book Award (American Library Association), 1988.
- The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
- Stonewall Book Award, Winner, 1988
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0312009941
- 9780312009946
- 0312241356
- 9780312241353
- OCLC:
- 16130075
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