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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
9 reviews
lizziaha's review against another edition
Graphic: Death and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Sexual content
znvisser's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Drug use, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
v_neptune's review against another edition
Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual content
friends2lovers's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, and Medical trauma
Minor: Child death and Suicidal thoughts
pmhandley's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death and Terminal illness
Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Religious bigotry
Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Drug use, Hate crime, Medical content, and Outing
sakisreads's review against another edition
3.0
Overall, this was a good but quite dated look into the AIDS epidemic. I think I would like to find a more sensitive perspective into this topic 😳
Graphic: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent
spaghett17's review against another edition
4.5
The one gripe I have is that it is a heavy and slow book that can get kind of dull/hard to read at times. I would recommend having a (or two or three) lighthearted read going on at the same time.
Graphic: Homophobia
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Sexual content
emmeline's review against another edition
Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Medical content
Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Grief
fawns's review against another edition
5.0
This book was an excellent read. It is comprehensive and obviously meticulously researched when it comes to the epidemiology and financial aspects of AIDS. I had no idea of the parallels that could be drawn between the way AIDS was handled by the US and Reagan and the way Covid was handled by Trump. Handled in that it was allowed to run rampant with little intervention to protect people by the federal government.
My criticism is that the author focused very little of his writing on how AIDS affected communities of color in the '80s, focusing instead on the white community.
It also would have been instructive to be able to learn more about the front-line activists that did the vast majority of the work to make changes in policy and safety.
Overall, if willing to make the time investment (it's a little over 600 pages), this is a well-done public health history book to read and learn from.
Graphic: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, and Medical content