Book/Printed Material Once upon a virus : AIDS legends and vernacular risk perception
About this Item
Title
- Once upon a virus : AIDS legends and vernacular risk perception
Names
- Goldstein, Diane E.
Created / Published
- Logan : Utah State University Press, [2004]
- ©2004
Contents
- Introduction : philosophizing in a war zone -- "Tag, you've got AIDS" : HIV in folklore and legend -- Bad people and body fluids : contemporary legend and AIDS discourse -- Making sense : narrative and the development of culturally appropriate health education -- What exactly did they do with that monkey, anyway? : contemporary legend, scientific speculation, and the politics of blame in the search for AIDS origins -- Welcome to the innocent world of AIDS : cultural viability, localization, and contemporary legend -- "Billy Ray virus" : the folk creation and official maintenance of a public health scapegoat -- "Banishing all the spindles from the kingdom" : reading needle-prick narratives as resistance -- Once upon a virus : public health and narrative as a proactive form.
Headings
- - AIDS (Disease)--Newfoundland and Labrador
- - Risk perception
- - Health behavior
- - AIDS (Disease)--Legends
Notes
- - Includes bibliographical references and index.
- - Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
Medium
- 1 electronic resource (xvi, 210 pages)
Call Number/Physical Location
- RA643.86.C22
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2020715650
Rights Advisory
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode External
Access Advisory
- Unrestricted online access
Online Format
- image