Contagious Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative

Name: Contagious Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
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ISBN: 9780822341536

ISBN-10: 0822341530

ISBN-13: 9780822341536

Edition: 2008

Authors: Priscilla Wald

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How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by 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 and film. The "outbreak narrative" begins with the identification of an emerging infection, follows it through the global networks of contact and contagion, and ends with the epidemiological work that contains it. Priscilla Wald argues that we…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/9/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Imagined Immunities: The Epidemiology of Belonging



The Healthy Carrier: "Typhoid Mary" and Social Being



Communicable Americanism: Social Contagion and Urban Spaces



Viral Cultures: Microbes and Politics in the Cold War



"The Columbus of AIDS": The Invention of "Patient Zero"


Epilogue


Notes


Works Cited


Index