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637338
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Wald, Priscilla
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| Title & Author
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Contagious : cultures, carriers, and the outbreak narrative /\ Priscilla Wald
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| Publication Statement
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Durham :: Duke University Press,, 2008
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1 online resource (xi, 373 p.) :: ill
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| ISBN
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9780822390572 (electronic bk.)
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: 0822390574 (electronic bk.)
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9780822341284
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082234128X
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9780822341536 (pbk.)
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0822341530 (pbk.)
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| Notes
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"A John Hope Franklin Center book"--P. [i]
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-351) and index
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| Contents
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Imagined immunities: the epidemiology of belonging -- The healthy carrier: "Typhoid Mary" and social being -- Communicable Americanism: social contagion and urban spaces -- Viral cultures: microbes and politics in the Cold War -- "The Columbus of AIDS": the invention of "Patient Zero."
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Epidemics-- History
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Emerging infectious diseases-- History
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Communicable Diseases, Emerging-- history
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Disease Outbreaks-- history
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Carrier State
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Communications Media-- history
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Disease Transmission, Infectious-- history
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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
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History, 20th Century
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History, 21st Century
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| LC Classification
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RA649.W25 2008eb
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RA649.W25 2008eb
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