Once Upon a Virus: AIDS Legends and Vernacular Risk Perception
Once Upon a Virus: AIDS Legends and Vernacular Risk Perception
by Diane E. Goldstein
eBook Details:
Publisher: Utah State University Press 2004
ISBN/ASIN: 0874215870
ISBN-13: 9780874215878
Number of pages: 228
License(s): This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the USU Press at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in All USU Press Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU.
eBook Description:
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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