HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China: Imagined Immunity Through Racialized Disease

By Johanna Hood

Book Overview

HIV/AIDS is an increasingly serious problem in China. This book explores HIV/AIDS, its portrayal in China's media, and the implications for public health policy. It discusses how many Chinese wrongly believe themselves to be immune, with infection only a possibility for other ethnic groups with perceived lower moral standards.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415471982
• ISBN13: 9780415471985
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"