HIV/AIDS, health and the media in China : imagined immunity through racialized disease / / Johanna Hood

• Autore: Hood Johanna
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.196/979200951
• Soggetto topico: AIDS (Disease) - China; AIDS (Disease) in mass media - China
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: At the intersections of HIV/AIDS : power, disease, others, and China's media -- China's media : telling and knowing HIV/AIDS -- Differentiating understandings : hei black and blackness, race, and place -- Hei : Africa, Africans, and HIV/AIDS -- Yuanshi : presenting the origin and primitive circumstances of HIV/AIDS in Africa -- Kexue : scientism and HIV/AIDS.
• Sommario/riassunto: HIV/AIDS is an increasingly serious problem in China, with an increasing number of new cases every year. As a result, HIV organizations have boomed, with both state and non-governmental organisations responding to the threat with campaigns to increase public awareness of the disease, utilising the media as the primary tool to reshape citizens' understandings and views of HIV/AIDS. This book explores how HIV/AIDS is portrayed in China's media. It argues that, despite increasing education campaigns, media coverage and social and academic openness towards HIV/AIDS, many Chinese of the majority
• Titolo autorizzato: HIV
• ISBN: 1-283-10478-4; 9786613104786; 1-136-83896-1; 0-203-83281-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459810403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Media, culture, and social change in Asia series ; ; 23.