Contagious
Subtitle: cultures, carriers, and the outbreak narrative
By: Priscilla Wald
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780822341284; 9780822341536
Subjects: Epidemics -- History; Emerging infectious diseases -- History
Notes: "A John Hope Franklin Center book"--P. [i]

Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-351) and index
Table of contents: title: Imagined immunities: the epidemiology of belonging; title: The healthy carrier: "Typhoid Mary" and social being; title: Communicable Americanism: social contagion and urban spaces; title: Viral cultures: microbes and politics in the Cold War; title: "The Columbus of AIDS": the invention of "Patient Zero"