Once upon a virus : AIDS legends and vernacular risk perception /

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Out to see America and satisfy his travel bug, W.T. Pfefferle resigned from his position as director of the writing program at Johns Hopkins University and hit the road to interview sixty-two poets about the significance of place in their work. The lively conversations that resulted may surprise wit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goldstein, Diane E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2004.
Temas:
AIDS (Disease) > Newfoundland and Labrador.
Risk perception.
Health behavior.
AIDS (Disease) > Legends.
AIDS (Disease)
Risk.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Health Behavior
Risk
Sida > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador.
Perception du risque.
Habitudes sanitaires.
Sida > Légendes.
Sida.
Risque.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador.
Public Health
Legends.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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