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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shevory, Thomas C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.