Once upon a virus [electronic resource] : AIDS legends and vernacular risk perception / Diane E. Goldstein.
Out to see America and satisfy his travel bug, W.T. Pfefferle resigned from his position as director of the writing program at Johns Hopkins University and hit the road to interview sixty-two poets about the significance of place in their work. The lively conversations that resulted may surprise wit...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : philosophizing in a war zone
- "Tag, you've got AIDS" : HIV in folklore and legend
- Bad people and body fluids : contemporary legend and AIDS discourse
- Making sense : narrative and the development of culturally appropriate health education
- What exactly did they do with that monkey, anyway? : contemporary legend, scientific speculation, and the politics of blame in the search for AIDS origins
- Welcome to the innocent world of AIDS : cultural viability, localization, and contemporary legend
- "Billy Ray virus" : the folk creation and official maintenance of a public health scapegoat
- "Banishing all the spindles from the kingdom" : reading needle-prick narratives as resistance
- Once upon a virus : public health and narrative as a proactive form.