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Contagious : cultures, carriers, and the outbreak narrative
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- Creator
- Priscilla Wald
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008
- Physical Details
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- xi, 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780822341284, 082234128X, 9780822390572, 9780822341536, 0822390574, 128292365X, 9781282923652, 0822341530
- OCLC
- ocn156902285, ocn271168139
- "A John Hope Franklin Center book"--P. [i].
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-351) and index.
- 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"
Subjects
- Epidemics -- History.
- Emerging infectious diseases -- History.
- Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- history.
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- Disease Outbreaks -- history.
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- Carrier State.
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- Communications Media -- history.
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- Disease Transmission, Infectious -- history.
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- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
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- History, 20th Century.
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- History, 21st Century.
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