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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451646303321

Autore

Shevory Thomas C

Titolo

Notorious H.I.V [[electronic resource] ] : the media spectacle of Nushawn Williams / / Thomas Shevory

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8166-9589-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Disciplina

364.1/42

Soggetti

Prisoners - Diseases - United States

AIDS (Disease) - United States

AIDS (Disease) in mass media - United States

Electronic books.

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

Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Moral Panics and Media Politics; 2. Small-Town Mythologies and the History of a Place; 3. Of Myths and Monsters; 4. State Power, Law, and the Sequestration of Disease; 5. HIV Culpability and the Politics of Crime; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1997, public authorities were granted an exception to New York's HIV confidentiality law-and released Nushawn Williams's name and picture to the press. Williams, who is HIV-positive, had had unprotected sex with young women and infected at least nine of them. Thomas Shevory sorts through the ensuing media panic and legal imbroglio to tell the story behind the Nushawn Williams case.