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Autore |
Lee Jon D. |
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Titolo |
An epidemic of rumors : how stories shape our perception of disease / / Jon D. Lee ; Dan Miller, cover design |
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Boulder, Colorado : , : Utah State University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-4920-1322-6 |
0-87421-929-9 |
0-87402-292-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (234 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Epidemics |
Epidemics - Social aspects |
Communicable diseases - Public opinion - Psychological aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Yellow Brick Road; 1. Chronicle of a Health Panic; 2. SARS and AIDS: A Comparison of Etiological Legends; 3. We Gather Together: SARS and Public Space; 4. Private Actions in Public Spaces: SARS and Paradigm Violations; 5. "Please Receive Communion through Your Hands": Personal and Communal Mediation of Stigma in the 2003 SARS Epidemic; 6. The Cause and the Cure: Folk Medicine and SARS; 7. This Little Virus Went to Market: A Comparison of H1N1 Narratives; 8. Full Circle: The Recycling of Disease Narratives; Epilogue: . . . And the World Moved On? |
Appendix: A Contribution toward a Typology of Disease NarrativesReferences; About the Author; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"In An Epidemic of Rumors, Jon D. Lee examines the human response to epidemics through the lens of the 2003 SARS epidemic. Societies usually respond to the eruption of disease by constructing stories, jokes, conspiracy theories, legends, and rumors, but these narratives are often more damaging than the diseases they reference. The information disseminated through them is often inaccurate, |
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