Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
(Part of the a John Hope Franklin Center Book Series)
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How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergence of HIV, in scientific publications and the mainstream media? The repetition of particular characters, images, and story lines--of Patients Zero and superspreaders, hot zones and tenacious microbes--produced a formulaic narrative as they circulated through the media and were amplified in popular fiction...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822341530
ISBN13:9780822341536
Release Date:January 2008
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:392 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"
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