Contagious
Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
1st Edition
Published on 9. January 2008
392 pages
978-0-8223-9057-2 (ISBN)
Description
Shows how narratives of contagion structure communities of belonging and how the lessons of these narratives are incorporated into sociological theories of cultural transmission and community formation.
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Priscilla Wald is Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form and the editor of the journal American Literature, both also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Imagined Immunities: The Epidemiology of Belonging 29
2. The Healthy Carrier: "Typhoid Mary" and Social Being 68
3. Communicable Americanism: Social Contagion and Urban Spaces 114
4. Viral Cultures: Microbes and Politics in the Cold War 157
5. "The Columbus of AIDS": The Invention of "Patient Zero" 213
Epilogue 264
Notes 271
Works Cited 323
Index 353
Introduction 1
1. Imagined Immunities: The Epidemiology of Belonging 29
2. The Healthy Carrier: "Typhoid Mary" and Social Being 68
3. Communicable Americanism: Social Contagion and Urban Spaces 114
4. Viral Cultures: Microbes and Politics in the Cold War 157
5. "The Columbus of AIDS": The Invention of "Patient Zero" 213
Epilogue 264
Notes 271
Works Cited 323
Index 353
