Erin's review of And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
This book changed my life in the most literal sense imaginable. And The Band Played On forced me to become an practicing feminist and advocate for sexual and, far more importantly, global health.
I read Randy Shilts tome for a Sociology of HIV/AIDS course at University of Toronto in the summer of 2005, arguably one of the most popular and most difficult courses to get into on the undergraduate schedule. The course was facinating and demanding. We read Shilts' book as a text and avoided more technical writing because it lacked the humanity of a person caught in the streets at the beginning of the global epidemic.
Now, as I work from time to time in sexually transmitted MRSA , I see a new need for this book, as both a motivator and as a historical lesson for the masses. It is not a book that has a moral or a political agenda, rather it tracks facts....more
I read Randy Shilts tome for a Sociology of HIV/AIDS course at University of Toronto in the summer of 2005, arguably one of the most popular and most difficult courses to get into on the undergraduate schedule. The course was facinating and demanding. We read Shilts' book as a text and avoided more technical writing because it lacked the humanity of a person caught in the streets at the beginning of the global epidemic.
Now, as I work from time to time in sexually transmitted MRSA , I see a new need for this book, as both a motivator and as a historical lesson for the masses. It is not a book that has a moral or a political agenda, rather it tracks facts....more
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