Contagious : cultures, carriers, and the outbreak narrative / Priscilla Wald.

Author
Wald, Priscilla [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Description
xi, 373 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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    Notes
    "A John Hope Franklin Center book"--P. [i].
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-351) and index.
    Contents
    • Imagined immunities: the epidemiology of belonging
    • The healthy carrier: "Typhoid Mary" and social being
    • Communicable Americanism: social contagion and urban spaces
    • Viral cultures: microbes and politics in the Cold War
    • "The Columbus of AIDS": the invention of "Patient Zero".
    ISBN
    • 9780822341284
    • 082234128X
    • 9780822341536 (pbk.)
    • 0822341530 (pbk.)
    LCCN
    2007029318
    OCLC
    156902285
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