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Author Goldstein, Diane E.

Title Once upon a virus : AIDS legends and vernacular risk perception / Diane E. Goldstein.

Imprint Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2004.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 210 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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 with the potential meanings of a seemingly simple concept. This gathering of voices and ideas is illustrated with photo and word portraits from the road and represented with suitable poems. The poets are James Harms, David Citino, Martha Collins, Linda Gregerson, Richard Tillinghast, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Mark Strand, Karen Volkman, Lisa Samuels, Marvin Bell, Michael Dennis Browne, David Allan Evans, David Romtvedt, Sandra Alcosser, Robert Wrigley, Nance Van Winckel, Christopher Howell, Mark Halperin, Jana Harris, Sam Hamill, Barbara Drake, Floyd Skloot, Ralph Angel, Carol Muske-Dukes, David St. John, Sharon Bryan, Donald Revell, Claudia Keelan, Alberto Rios, Richard Shelton, Jane Miller, William Wenthe, Naomi Shihab Nye, Peter Cooley, Miller Williams, Beth Ann Fennelly, Natasha Trethewey, Denise Duhamel, Campbell McGrath, Terrance Hayes, Alan Shapiro, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Rita Dove, Henry Taylor, Dave Smith, Nicole Cooley, David Lehman, Lucie Brock-Broido, Michael S. Harper, C.D. Wright, Mark Wunderlich, James Cummins, Frederick Smock, Mark Jarman, Carl Phillips, Scott Cairns, Elizabeth Dodd, Jonathan Holden, Bin Ramke, Kenneth Brewer, and Paisley Rekdal.
"Once Upon a Virus explores how contemporary, or 'urban, ' legends are indicators of culturally complex attitudes toward health and illness. Tracing the rich tradition of AIDS legends in relation to current scholarship on belief, Diane Goldstein shows how such stories not only articulate widespread perceptions of risk, health care, and health policy, they also influence official and scientific approaches to the disease and its management. Notions that appear in narratives of who gets AIDS, how and why, are indicators of broad issues involving health beliefs, concerns, and needs"--Publisher's description
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Language English.
Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
Risk perception.
Health behavior.
AIDS (Disease) -- Legends.
AIDS (Disease)
Risk.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Health Behavior
Risk
Newfoundland and Labrador
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.
Risk
AIDS (Disease)
Health behavior
Risk perception
Newfoundland and Labrador https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRj6FK7FhT3gvdW8GRyM
Indexed Term Public Health
Genre/Form legends (literary genre)
Legends
Legends.
Légendes.
Other Form: Print version: Goldstein, Diane E. Once upon a virus. Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2004 (DLC) 2004010414 (OCoLC)55124520
ISBN 0874215102 (electronic bk.)
9780874215106 (electronic bk.)
9786613283382
661328338X
0874215862 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780874215861 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0874215870 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780874215878 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1283283387
9781283283380
Standard No. AU@ 000051399706
AU@ 000055736956
DEBSZ 430377924
GBVCP 1008654248
NZ1 14250992
UKMGB 020153717

 
    
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