Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative by Priscilla Wald

Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative

Priscilla Wald

392 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history politics science challenging informative slow-paced
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How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergence of HIV, in scientific publications and the mainstream media? The repetition of particular chara...

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