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Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative - A John Hope Franklin Center Book
Priscilla Wald
Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative - A John Hope Franklin Center Book
Priscilla Wald
Argues that we need to understand the appeal and persistence of the outbreak narrative because the stories we tell about disease emergence have consequences. This title presents cautionary tale about how the stories we tell circumscribe our thinking about global health and human interactions as the world imagines the next Great Plague.
392 pages, 9 illustrations, 2 figures
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 9, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780822341536 |
Publishers | Duke University Press |
Pages | 392 |
Dimensions | 228 × 158 × 24 mm · 522 g |
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