An epidemic of rumors : how stories shape our perception of disease /
"In An Epidemic of Rumors, Jon D. Lee examines the human response to epidemics through the lens of the 2003 SARS epidemic. Societies usually respond to the eruption of disease by constructing stories, jokes, conspiracy theories, legends, and rumors, but these narratives are often more damaging...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boulder, Colorado :
Utah State University Press,
2014.
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| ISBN: | 9780874219296 0874219299 0874219280 9780874219289 1492013226 9781492013228 0874022924 9780874022926 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Yellow Brick Road; 1. Chronicle of a Health Panic; 2. SARS and AIDS: A Comparison of Etiological Legends; 3. We Gather Together: SARS and Public Space; 4. Private Actions in Public Spaces: SARS and Paradigm Violations; 5. "Please Receive Communion through Your Hands": Personal and Communal Mediation of Stigma in the 2003 SARS Epidemic; 6. The Cause and the Cure: Folk Medicine and SARS; 7. This Little Virus Went to Market: A Comparison of H1N1 Narratives; 8. Full Circle: The Recycling of Disease Narratives; Epilogue: ... And the World Moved On?
- Appendix: A Contribution toward a Typology of Disease NarrativesReferences; About the Author; Index.