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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143274903321

Autore

Goldstein Diane E

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, : Utah State University Press, c2004

ISBN

9786613283382

9781283283380

1283283387

9780874215106

0874215102

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

614.5/99392/09718

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) - Newfoundland and Labrador

Risk perception

Health behavior

AIDS (Disease)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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, Or