Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative

by Priscilla Wald

Book Overview

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"