The end of innocence : Britain in the time of AIDS / Simon Garfield.
By: Garfield, Simon [author.]
Publisher: London : Faber & Faber, 2021Edition: New editionDescription: 576 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0047890187ISBN: 9780571371020 (pbk.) :Subject(s): AIDS (Disease) -- Great Britain | AIDS (Disease) -- Transmission -- Great Britain | AIDS (Disease) -- Epidemiology. -- Great Britain | HIV infections -- Epidemiology. -- Great Britain | Health and Wellbeing | Social services & welfare, criminology | History | Illness & addiction: social aspects | European history | Diseases & disorders | Gay & Lesbian studies | HIV / AIDS | Social & cultural history | "Gender studies: transgender, transsexual, intersex people" | United Kingdom, Great Britain | 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999DDC classification: 362.19697920941 LOC classification: RA643.86Awards: Somerset Maugham PrizeSummary: 'A remarkable journalistic achievement.' Time Out'Powerful . Including interviews with key figures in the fight against the virus as well as those facing personal devastation and prejudice, The End of Innocence is an important and powerful story, compellingly told. ** With a new introduction by Russell T Davies **A new edition of the award-winning, ground-breaking account of the early AIDS crisis in Britain.'A remarkable journalistic achievement.' Time Out'Powerful . . . Indispensable.' Observer'Superb.' London Review of BooksWinner of the Somerset Maugham PrizeHow does a country control a virus that is killing increasing numbers of people? How does a government contain an epidemic spread by sex, drug use and blood products?And how does a population react when told that everyone is at risk from infection? By 1986, when the British Government woke up to the problem of AIDS, it estimated that 30,000 people had already been infected with HIV. Why was it so slow to act? Would the situation have been different if most of those affected had not been gay men? Award-winning journalist Simon Garfield presents a story of political intrigue, of panic and hysteria, of wasted opportunities and of a medical battle conducted against seemingly impossible odds. Including interviews with key figures in the fight against the virus as well as those facing personal devastation and prejudice, The End of Innocence is an important and powerful story, compellingly told. Features a new afterword by the author.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A new edition of the award-winning, ground-breaking account of the early AIDS crisis in Britain.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'A remarkable journalistic achievement.' Time Out'Powerful . Including interviews with key figures in the fight against the virus as well as those facing personal devastation and prejudice, The End of Innocence is an important and powerful story, compellingly told. ** With a new introduction by Russell T Davies **A new edition of the award-winning, ground-breaking account of the early AIDS crisis in Britain.'A remarkable journalistic achievement.' Time Out'Powerful . . . Indispensable.' Observer'Superb.' London Review of BooksWinner of the Somerset Maugham PrizeHow does a country control a virus that is killing increasing numbers of people? How does a government contain an epidemic spread by sex, drug use and blood products?And how does a population react when told that everyone is at risk from infection? By 1986, when the British Government woke up to the problem of AIDS, it estimated that 30,000 people had already been infected with HIV. Why was it so slow to act? Would the situation have been different if most of those affected had not been gay men? Award-winning journalist Simon Garfield presents a story of political intrigue, of panic and hysteria, of wasted opportunities and of a medical battle conducted against seemingly impossible odds. Including interviews with key figures in the fight against the virus as well as those facing personal devastation and prejudice, The End of Innocence is an important and powerful story, compellingly told. Features a new afterword by the author.
Somerset Maugham Prize
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of illustrations (p. ix)
- Foreword (p. xi)
- Part I
- 1 After the Dance (p. 3)
- 2 Subway (p. 21)
- 3 False Negative (p. 50)
- 4 The Fridge That Day (p. 66)
- 5 Shooting Gallery (p. 109)
- 6 A Plague on Both Your Houses (p. 127)
- 7 Suitable Treatment (p. 164)
- 8 The Church Has AIDS (p. 199)
- 9 Protest (p. 215)
- 10 Really at Risk? (p. 232)
- 11 Safer Sex, Risky Sex (p. 272)
- 12 Stars and Red Ribbons (p. 299)
- Part II
- Journal of a Plague Year (p. 339)
- Epilogue to the Paperback Edition, 1995 (p. 461)
- Afterword to the 2021 edition (p. 465)
- Appendix (p. 477)
- Acknowledgements (p. 491)
- Notes and References (p. 494)
- Index (p. 525)
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