Once Upon a Virus: AIDS Legends and Vernacular Risk Perception

by Diane E. Goldstein

Book Overview

Once Upon a Virus explores how contemporary, or "urban," legends are indicators of culturally complex attitudes toward health and illness. Tracing the rich tradition of AIDS legends in relation to current scholarship on belief, Diane Goldstein shows how such stories not only articulate widespread perceptions of risk, health care, and health policy, they also influence official and scientific approaches to the disease and its management...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874215870
• ISBN13: 9780874215878
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"