by Diane Goldstein
Utah State University Press, 2004
Paper: 978-0-87421-587-8 | eISBN: 978-0-87421-510-6
Library of Congress Classification RA643.86.C22N494 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 614.59939209718

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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. Notions that appear in narratives of who gets AIDS, how and why, are indicators of broad issues involving health beliefs, concerns, and needs.



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