Notorious H.I.V. : the media spectacle of Nushawn Williams /
In 1997, public authorities were granted an exception to New York's HIV confidentiality law--and released Nushawn Williams's name and picture to the press. Williams, who is HIV-positive, had had unprotected sex with young women and infected at least nine of them. Thomas Shevory sorts throu...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Introduction; 1. Moral Panics and Media Politics; 2. Small-Town Mythologies and the History of a Place; 3. Of Myths and Monsters; 4. State Power, Law, and the Sequestration of Disease; 5. HIV Culpability and the Politics of Crime; Conclusion; Notes; Index.