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Contagious : cultures, carriers, and the outbreak narrative

Title
Contagious : cultures, carriers, and the outbreak narrative / Priscilla Wald.
Author
Wald, Priscilla.
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

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Description
xi, 373 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Epidemics > History
  • Emerging infectious diseases > History
Note
  • "A John Hope Franklin Center book"--P. [i].
Bibliography (note)
  • 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".
Call Number
JFE 08-3174
ISBN
  • 9780822341284
  • 082234128X
  • 9780822341536 (pbk.)
  • 0822341530 (pbk.)
LCCN
2007029318
OCLC
156902285
Author
Wald, Priscilla.
Title
Contagious : cultures, carriers, and the outbreak narrative / Priscilla Wald.
Imprint
Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-351) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 08-3174
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