Once Upon a Virus: AIDS Legends and Vernacular Risk Perception

by Diane E. Goldstein

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Once Upon a Virus explores how contemporary, or "urban," legends are indicators of culturally complex attitudes toward health and illness. Tracing the rich tradition of AIDS legends in relation to current scholarship on belief, Diane Goldstein shows how such stories not only articulate widespread perceptions of risk, health care, and health policy, they also influence official and scientific approaches to the disease and its management...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0874215870

ISBN13:9780874215878

Release Date:August 2004

Publisher:Utah State University Press

Length:210 Pages

Weight:0.88 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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Administration & Medicine Economics Administration & Policy AIDS & HIV Clinical Diseases Diseases & Physical Ailments Health Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting Internal Medicine

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