Contagious - Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak NarrativePaperback
Contagious - Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak NarrativePaperback How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated,…
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Contagious - Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak NarrativePaperback
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 "outbreak narrative" begins with the identification of an emerging infection, follows it through the global networks of contact and contagion, and ends with the epidemiological work that contains it. The repetition of particular characters, images, and story lines-of Patients Zero and superspreaders, hot zones and tenacious microbes-produced a formulaic narrative as they circulated through the media and were amplified in popular fiction and film.
As they disseminate information, they affect survival Priscilla Wald argues that we need to understand the appeal and persistence of the outbreak narrative because the stories we tell about disease emergence have consequences.
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