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    The Epidemic: A History of Aids

    By Jonathan Engel

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    From the Castro bathhouses to AZT and the denial of AIDS in South Africa, this sweeping look at AIDS covers the epidemic from all angles and across the world. Engel seamlessly weaves together science, politics, and culture, writing with an even hand—noting the excesses of the more radical edges of the ACT UP movement as well as the conservative religious leaders who thought AIDS victims deserved what they got.

    The story of AIDS is one of the most compelling human dramas of our time, both in its profound tragedy and in the extraordinary scientific efforts impelled on its behalf. For gay Americans, it has been the story of the past generation, redefining the community and the community's sexuality. For the Third World, AIDS has created endless devastation, toppling economies, social structures, and whole villages and regions. And the worst may yet be to come: AIDS is expanding quickly into India, Russia, China, and elsewhere, while still raging insub-Saharan Africa.

    A distinguished medical historian, Engel lets his characters speak for themselves. Whether gay activists, government officials, public health professionals, scientists, or frightened parents of schoolchildren, they responded as best they could to tragic happenstance that emerged seemingly from nowhere. There is much drama here, and human weakness and heroism too. Writing with vivid immediacy, Engel allows us to relive the short but tumultuous history of a modern scourge.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061856761
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    • 4/5
      Engel is thorough, journalistic, and documents everything he says thoroughly. This is both the strength and the weakness of the book. Facts are delivered relentlessly. Unless one is already a student of this global crisis, one will unquestionably learn a great deal. Hardly a paragraph goes by without statistics being delivered, and one will be astonished when the book ends approximately 2/3 of the way through the volume, but the entire last third of the book is end notes. However, the delivery is so dry and unemotional, that I didn't feel as in touch with the victims, the health care workers, the scientists, or anyone else as I would have liked. They were all primarily reduced to numbers. Those numbers could be quite shocking, revealing, and upsetting. But I would have liked the chapters to be broken up with a few personal stories, to give a human dimension to a very human drama.
    • 4/5
      This is one compelling book about the history of AIDS. In conversational and fast-paced language, Engel is systematic about the historical facts and offers a neutral approach to the progress of research on AIDS. Great book for the non-scientific reader.