The Aids Epidemic In San Francisco Journalist Of The Early Aids Epidemic In San Francisco

Author : Randy Shilts
Publisher : Souvenir Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780285640764

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And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts Pdf

In 1981, the year when AIDS came to international attention, Randy Shilts was employed by the San Francisco Chronicle as the first openly gay journalist dealing with gay issues. He quickly devoted himself to reporting on the developing epidemic, trying to understand the cultural, medical and political impact of the disease on the gay community and United States society as a whole. Extensively researched, weaving together personal stories with political and social reporting, And the Band Played On is a masterpiece of investigative reporting that led to Randy Shilts being described as "the pre-eminent chronicler of gay life" by The New York Times. Shilts exposed why AIDS was allowed to spread - while the medical and political authorities ignored (and even denied) the threat. It was awarded the Stonewall Book Award, became an international bestseller translated into 7 languages, and was made into a major movie in 1993 starring Richard Gere and Sir Ian McKellen. And the Band Played On is one of the great works of contemporary journalism, and provides the foundation for the continuing debate about the greatest medical epidemic faced in our time.

Author : Andrew E Stoner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252042484

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The Journalist of Castro Street by Andrew E Stoner Pdf

As the acclaimed author of And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts became the country's most recognized voice on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. His success emerged from a relentless work ethic and strong belief in the power of journalism to help mainstream society understand not just the rising tide of HIV/AIDS but gay culture and liberation. In-depth and dramatic, Andrew E. Stoner's biography follows the remarkable life of the brash, pioneering journalist. Shilts's reporting on AIDS in San Francisco broke barriers even as other gay writers and activists ridiculed his overtures to the mainstream and labeled him a traitor to the movement, charges the combative Shilts forcefully answered. Behind the scenes, Shilts overcame career-threatening struggles with alcohol and substance abuse to achieve the notoriety he had always sought, while the HIV infection he had purposely kept hidden began to take his life. Filled with new insights and fascinating detail, The Journalist of Castro Street reveals the historic work and passionate humanity of the legendary investigative reporter and author.

Author : Sarah Schulman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374719951

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Let the Record Show by Sarah Schulman Pdf

Winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary LGBTQ Nonfiction Award and the 2022 NLGJA Excellence in Book Writing Award. Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbriath Award for Nonfiction, the Gotham Book Prize, and the ALA Stonewall Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award. A 2021 New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. One of NPR, New York, and The Guardian's Best Books of 2021, one of Buzzfeed's Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2021, one of Electric Literature's Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021, one of NBC's 10 Most Notable LGBTQ Books of 2021, and one of Gay Times' Best LGBTQ Books of 2021. "This is not reverent, definitive history. This is a tactician’s bible." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activism In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. They stormed the FDA and NIH in Washington, DC, and started needle exchange programs in New York; they took over Grand Central Terminal and fought to change the legal definition of AIDS to include women; they transformed the American insurance industry, weaponized art and advertising to push their agenda, and battled—and beat—The New York Times, the Catholic Church, and the pharmaceutical industry. Their activism, in its complex and intersectional power, transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them. Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today’s activists, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration—and long-overdue reassessment—of the coalition’s inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture. Schulman, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation, explores the how and the why, examining, with her characteristic rigor and bite, how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever, and in the process created a livable future for generations of people across the world.

Author : Randy Shilts
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429930390

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And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts Pdf

Upon its first publication more than twenty years ago, And the Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigative reporting. An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts' expose revealed why AIDS was allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80's while the most trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat. One of the few true modern classics, it changed and framed how AIDS was discussed in the following years. Now republished in a special 20th Anniversary edition, And the Band Played On remains one of the essential books of our time.

Author : Michelle Cochrane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781135960841

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When AIDS Began by Michelle Cochrane Pdf

By examining the early outbreaks in San Francisco, Cochrane unfolds the "creation" of AIDS in one geographic location and then traces how and why major claims about the transmission of HIV were made, extrapolated and then disseminated to the rest of the world - all important factors in understanding this disease.

Author : Ann Silversides
Publisher : Between The Lines
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9781896357737

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AIDS Activist by Ann Silversides Pdf

AIDS galvanized the politics of the gay community. The groups Michael Lynch helped organize and his prescient articles in The Body Politic sent messages of resistance and hope across North America. In telling his story and illuminating the issues, Ann Silversides draws on Lynch's diaries, letters, and poems; interviews with family, friends, and colleagues; film and newspaper records; and the papers of other leading AIDS activists. Book jacket.

Author : Richard A. McKay
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226064000

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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic by Richard A. McKay Pdf

Now an award-winning documentary feature film The search for a “patient zero”—popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic—has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. How did this idea so swiftly come to exert such a strong grip on the scientific, media, and popular consciousness? In Patient Zero, Richard A. McKay interprets a wealth of archival sources and interviews to demonstrate how this seemingly new concept drew upon centuries-old ideas—and fears—about contagion and social disorder. McKay presents a carefully documented and sensitively written account of the life of Gaétan Dugas, a gay man whose skin cancer diagnosis in 1980 took on very different meanings as the HIV/AIDS epidemic developed—and who received widespread posthumous infamy when he was incorrectly identified as patient zero of the North American outbreak. McKay shows how investigators from the US Centers for Disease Control inadvertently created the term amid their early research into the emerging health crisis; how an ambitious journalist dramatically amplified the idea in his determination to reframe national debates about AIDS; and how many individuals grappled with the notion of patient zero—adopting, challenging and redirecting its powerful meanings—as they tried to make sense of and respond to the first fifteen years of an unfolding epidemic. With important insights for our interconnected age, Patient Zero untangles the complex process by which individuals and groups create meaning and allocate blame when faced with new disease threats. What McKay gives us here is myth-smashing revisionist history at its best.

Author : Dorothy Nelkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521407435

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A Disease of Society by Dorothy Nelkin Pdf

This book, first published in 1991, argues that AIDS is a 'disease of society', which is challenging and changing society profoundly.

Author : Michael J. O'Loughlin
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506467719

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Hidden Mercy by Michael J. O'Loughlin Pdf

The 1980s and 1990s, the height of the AIDS crisis in the United States, was decades ago now, and many of the stories from this time remain hidden: A Catholic nun from a small Midwestern town packs up her life to move to New York City, where she throws herself into a community under assault from HIV and AIDS. A young priest sees himself in the many gay men dying from AIDS and grapples with how best to respond, eventually coming out as gay and putting his own career on the line. A gay Catholic with HIV loses his partner to AIDS and then flees the church, focusing his energy on his own health rather than fight an institution seemingly rejecting him. Set against the backdrop of the HIV and AIDS epidemic of the late twentieth century and the Catholic Church's crackdown on gay and lesbian activists, journalist Michael O'Loughlin searches out the untold stories of those who didn't look away, who at great personal cost chose compassion--even as he seeks insight for LGBTQ people of faith struggling to find a home in religious communities today. This is one journalist's--gay and Catholic himself--compelling picture of those quiet heroes who responded to human suffering when so much of society--and so much of the church--told them to look away. These pure acts of compassion and mercy offer us hope and inspiration as we continue to confront existential questions about what it means to be Americans, Christians, and human beings responding to those most in need.

Author : Craig Timberg,Daniel Halperin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781101560617

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Tinderbox by Craig Timberg,Daniel Halperin Pdf

In this groundbreaking narrative, longtime Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new science, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic and the best ways to fight it today. Recent genetic studies have traced the birth of HIV to the forbidding equatorial forests of Cameroon, where chimpanzees carried the virus for millennia without causing a major outbreak in humans. During the Scramble for Africa, colonial companies blazed new routes through the jungle in search of rubber and other riches, sending African porters into remote regions rarely traveled before. It was here that humans first contracted the strain of HIV that would eventually cause 99 percent of AIDS deaths around the world. Western powers were key actors in turning a localized outbreak into a sprawling epidemic as bustling new trade routes, modern colonial cities, and the rise of prostitution sped the virus across Africa. Christian missionaries campaigned to suppress polygamy, but left in its place fractured sexual cultures that proved uncommonly vulnerable to HIV. Equally devastating was the gradual loss of the African ritual of male circumcision, which recent studies have shown offers significant protection against infection. Timberg and Halperin argue that the same Western hubris that marked the colonial era has hamstrung the effort to fight HIV. From the United Nations AIDS program to the Bush administration's historic relief campaign, global health officials have favored well-meaning Western approaches--abstinence campaigns, condom promotion, HIV testing--that have proven ineffective in slowing the epidemic in Africa. Meanwhile they have overlooked homegrown African initiatives aimed squarely at the behaviors spreading the virus. In a riveting narrative that stretches from colonial Leopoldville to 1980s San Francisco to South Africa today, Tinderbox reveals how human hands unleashed this epidemic and can now overcome it, if only we learn the lessons of the past.

Author : Alvin E. Friedman-Kien,Linda J. Laubenstein
Publisher : Mosby
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : UCAL:B4531086

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AIDS by Alvin E. Friedman-Kien,Linda J. Laubenstein Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025971370

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The AIDS Epidemic in San Francisco: Animal virology and the discovery of the AIDS virus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard A. McKay
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226063959

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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic by Richard A. McKay Pdf

Introduction: "He is still out there"--What came before zero? -- The cluster study -- "Humanizing this disease" -- Giving a face to the epidemic -- Ghosts and blood -- Locating Gaétan Dugas's views -- Epilogue: zero hour-making histories of the North American AIDS epidemic

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : UCBK:C080383829

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The AIDS Epidemic in San Francisco: First wave of the nursing staff on the AIDS ward, San Francisco General Hospital by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jacob Levenson
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780385722346

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The Secret Epidemic by Jacob Levenson Pdf

Half the people in the United States who are diagnosed with HIV are now African American. Through the eyes of those on the front lines of the crisis, journalist Jacob Levenson tells a story of race and public health that spans fifty years and reveals how AIDS has become one of the leading killers of young black men and women. Medical researcher Mindy Fullilove investigates the epidemic’s links to crack cocaine, the Bronx fires, and national health policy. Desiree Rushing must reconcile her crack addiction and HIV infection with the fate of her city, family, and the black church. David deShazo, a white AIDS worker in Alabama, fights to prevent the American South from becoming the epidemic’s new epicenter. And Mario Cooper, a gay, infected son of the black elite confronts the boundaries of American race politics in Washington, D.C. Seamlessly interweaving personal stories with national policy, Levenson indelibly captures this devastating epidemic and illuminates its potential to expand our understanding of race in America.