And the Band Played On Book
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And the Band Played On

  • Author : Randy Shilts
  • Publisher : Souvenir Press
  • File Size : 6,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2011-11-03
  • Genre: Social Science
  • Pages : 656
  • ISBN 10 : 9780285640764
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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.

And The Band Played on Book
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And The Band Played on

  • Author : Randy Shilts
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • File Size : 20,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2000-04-09
  • Genre: Health & Fitness
  • Pages : 552
  • ISBN 10 : 0312241356
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An investigative account of the medical, sexual, and scientific questions surrounding the spread of AIDS across the country.

And The Band Played on Book
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And The Band Played on

  • Author : Randy Shilts
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • File Size : 18,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2000-04-09
  • Genre: Health & Fitness
  • Pages : 666
  • ISBN 10 : 0312241356
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An investigative account of the medical, sexual, and scientific questions surrounding the spread of AIDS across the country.

And the Band Played On Book

And the Band Played On

  • Author : Christopher Ward
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • File Size : 19,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2011
  • Genre: Dumfries (Scotland)
  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 10 : 1444707957
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The author reconstructs the story of his grandfather, Jock Hume, the Titanic's violinist, and his grandmother, Mary Costin, including their last days together onboard and how these events shaped their family's life as well as those of other survivors.

Plague Years Book
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Plague Years

  • Author : Ross A. Slotten
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • File Size : 5,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2020-07-15
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 225
  • ISBN 10 : 9780226718934
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In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten signed more death certificates in Chicago—and, by inference, the state of Illinois—than anyone else. As a family physician, he was trained to care for patients from birth to death, but when he completed his residency in 1984, he had no idea that many of his future patients would be cut down in the prime of their lives. Among those patients were friends, colleagues, and lovers, shunned by most of the medical community because they were gay and HIV positive. Slotten wasn’t an infectious disease specialist, but because of his unique position as both a gay man and a young physician, he became an unlikely pioneer, swept up in one of the worst epidemics in modern history. Plague Years is an unprecedented first-person account of that epidemic, spanning not just the city of Chicago but four continents as well. Slotten provides an intimate yet comprehensive view of the disease’s spread alongside heartfelt portraits of his patients and his own conflicted feelings as a medical professional, drawn from more than thirty years of personal notebooks. In telling the story of someone who was as much a potential patient as a doctor, Plague Years sheds light on the darkest hours in the history of the LGBT community in ways that no previous medical memoir has.

Stonewall Book
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Stonewall

  • Author : Martin Duberman
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • File Size : 18,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2019-06-04
  • Genre: Social Science
  • Pages : 432
  • ISBN 10 : 9780593083994
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The definitive account of the Stonewall Riots, the first gay rights march, and the LGBTQ activists at the center of the movement. “Martin Duberman is a national treasure.”—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, was raided by police. But instead of responding with the typical compliance the NYPD expected, patrons and a growing crowd decided to fight back. The five days of rioting that ensued changed forever the face of gay and lesbian life. In Stonewall, renowned historian and activist Martin Duberman tells the full story of this pivotal moment in history. With riveting narrative skill, he re-creates those revolutionary, sweltering nights in vivid detail through the lives of six people who were drawn into the struggle for LGBTQ rights. Their stories combine to form an unforgettable portrait of the repression that led up to the riots, which culminates when they triumphantly participate in the first gay rights march of 1970, the roots of today's pride marches. Fifty years after the riots, Stonewall remains a rare work that evokes with a human touch an event in history that still profoundly affects life today.

The Band that Played On Book
Score: 3.5
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The Band that Played On

  • Author : Steve Turner
  • Publisher : Thomas Nelson
  • File Size : 9,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2012-09-26
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 274
  • ISBN 10 : 9781595553874
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“They kept it up to the very end. Only the engulfing ocean had power to drown them into silence. The band was playing ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee.’ I could hear it distinctly. The end was very close.” —CHARLOTTE COLLYER, TITANIC SURVIVOR The movies, the documentaries, the museum exhibits. They often tell the same story about the “unsinkable” Titanic, her wealthy passengers, the families torn apart, and the unthinkable end. But never before has “that glorious band”—the group of eight musicians who played on as the Titanic slipped deeper and deeper into the Atlantic Ocean—been explored in such depth. Steve Turner’s extensive research reveals a fascinating story including dishonest agents, a clairvoyant, social climbers, and a fraudulent violin maker. Read what brought the band members together and how their music served as the haunting soundtrack for one of modern history’s most tragic maritime disasters. BOOK REVIEWS The Band that Played On by Steve Turner is, surprisingly, the first book since the great ship went down to examine the lives of the eight musicians who were employed by the Titanic. What these men did?standing calmly on deck playing throughout the disaster?achieved global recognition. But their individual stories, until now, have been largely unknown. What Turner has uncovered is a narrow but unique slice of history?one more chapter of compelling Titanic lore. Turner, a music journalist, pursued living relatives of the band members and squeezed all that he could out of “inherited photographs, documents, and anecdotes” enabling him to sketch brief but poignant portraits of eight young (or at least youngish) men, all born in an optimistic era and all members of the rising middle class. To their parents, their girlfriends, and surely to themselves as well, the future must have seemed bright right up until the early morning hours of April 15, 1912… There is much that we do not know about the final hours of these men. Why did they

The Picture of Health Book
Score: 5
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The Picture of Health

  • Author : Henri Colt
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • File Size : 11,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2011-05-10
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 656
  • ISBN 10 : 0199876002
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Film and literature have long been mined for interesting examples and case studies in order to teach biomedical ethics to students. This volume presents a collection of about 80 very brief, accessible essays written by international experts from medicine, social sciences, and the humanities, all of whom have experience using film in their teaching of medical ethics. Each essay focuses on a single scene and the ethical issues it raises, and the volume editors have provided strict guidelines for what each essay must do, while also allowing for some creative freedom. While some of the films are obvious candidates with medical themes -- "Million Dollar Baby", "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" -- some are novel choices, such as "Pan's Labyrinth" or "As Good as it Gets". The book will contain several general introductory chapters to major sections, and a complete filmography and cross-index at the end of the book where readers can look up individual films or ethical issues.

The Boys in the Band Book
Score: 4
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The Boys in the Band

  • Author : Mart Crowley
  • Publisher : Concord Theatricals
  • File Size : 12,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 1968
  • Genre: Drama
  • Pages : 116
  • ISBN 10 : 0573640041
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"Full length, drama / 9 m / interior"--P. [4] of cover.

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic Book

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

  • Author : Richard A. McKay
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • File Size : 15,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2017-11-22
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 400
  • ISBN 10 : 9780226064000
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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.

The Mayor of Castro Street Book
Score: 4
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The Mayor of Castro Street

  • Author : Randy Shilts
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
  • File Size : 8,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2008-10-14
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 400
  • ISBN 10 : 9781466829671
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The Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts's acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s. Known as "The Mayor of Castro Street" even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk's personal and political life is a story full of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassinations at City Hall, massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice, and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope. The Mayor of Castro Street is a story of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassination in City Hall and massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope. Harvey Milk has been the subject of numerous books and movies, including the Academy Award–winning 1984 documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk. His life is also the basis of a 2008 major motion picture, Milk, starring Sean Penn.

Borrowed Time Book
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Borrowed Time

  • Author : Paul Monette
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • File Size : 13,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2014-03-25
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 342
  • ISBN 10 : 9781480473850
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“An eloquent testimonial to the power of love and the devastation of loss” from the National Book Award–winning author of Becoming a Man (Publishers Weekly). In 1974, Paul Monette met Roger Horwitz, the man with whom he would share more than a decade of his life. In 1986, Roger died of complications from AIDS. Borrowed Time traces this love story from start to tragic finish. At a time when the medical community was just beginning to understand this mysterious and virulent disease, Monette and others like him were coming to terms with unfathomable loss. This personal account of the early days of the AIDS crisis tells the story of love in the face of death. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Borrowed Time was one of the first memoirs to deal candidly with AIDS and is as moving and relevant now as it was more than twenty-five years ago. Written with fierce honesty and heartwarming tenderness, this book is part love story, part testimony, and part requiem. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Paul Monette including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the Paul Monette papers of the UCLA Library Special Collections.

And the Band Played on Book
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And the Band Played on

  • Author : Randy Shilts
  • Publisher : Souvenir Press
  • File Size : 13,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2011
  • Genre: MEDICAL
  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 10 : 0285640194
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With a new introduction by "Rolling Stone" national reporter and bestselling author William Greider, this modern masterpiece remains as compelling, heartbreaking, enraging, and critically important as ever.

And the Band Played On Book
Score: 4.5
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And the Band Played On

  • Author : Randy Shilts
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
  • File Size : 7,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2007-11-27
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 656
  • ISBN 10 : 9781429930390
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Upon it's first publication 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.

And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda Book

And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda

  • Author : Eric Bogle
  • Publisher : Allen & Unwin
  • File Size : 11,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2015-02-01
  • Genre: Juvenile Fiction
  • Pages : 32
  • ISBN 10 : 9781743434888
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But the band played 'Waltzing Matilda' when we stopped to bury our slain. We buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs; then we started all over again. Eric Bogle's famous and familiar Australian song about the Battle of Gallipoli explores the futility of war with haunting power. Now Bruce Whatley's evocative illustrations bring a heart-rending sense of reality to the tale. A timely story for every generation to share.