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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 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subjects
Note
  • "A John Hope Franklin Center book"--P. [i].
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-351) and index.
Contents
1. Imagined Immunities: The Epidemiology of Belonging -- 2. The Healthy Carrier: "Typhoid Mary" and Social Being -- 3. Communicable Americanism: Social Contagion and Urban Spaces -- 4. Viral Cultures: Microbes and Politics in the Cold War -- 5. "The Columbus of AIDS": The Invention of "Patient Zero"
ISBN
  • 9780822341284 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 082234128X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822341536 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0822341530 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007029318
OCLC
  • ocn156902285
  • 156902285 154800383
  • SCSB-5387511
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries