The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore - Couverture souple

Kitta, Andrea

 
9781607329268: The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1607329263 ISBN 13 : 9781607329268
Editeur : Utah State University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Disease is a social issue, not just a medical issue. Using examples of specific legends and rumors, The Kiss of Death explores the beliefs and practices that permeate notions of contagion and contamination. Author Andrea Kitta offers new insight into the nature of vernacular conceptions of health and sickness and how medical and scientific institutions can use cultural literacy to better meet their communities' needs.

Using ethnographic, media, and narrative analysis, this book explores the vernacular explanatory models used in decisions concerning contagion to better understand the real fears, risks, concerns, and doubts of the public. Kitta explores immigration and patient zero, zombies and vampires, Slender Man, HPV, and the kiss of death legend, as well as systematic racism, homophobia, and misogyny in North American culture, to examine the nature of contagion and contamination.

Conversations about health and risk cannot take place without considering positionality and intersectionality. In The Kiss of Death, Kitta isolates areas that require better communication and greater cultural sensitivity in the handling of infectious disease, public health, and other health-related disciplines and industries.

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À propos de l?auteur

Andrea Kitta is associate professor in the Department of English at East Carolina University with a specialty in medicine, belief, and the supernatural. Her current research includes vaccines, pandemic illness, contagion and contamination, stigmatized diseases, disability, health information on the internet, and Slender Man. She is the author of the 2012 Brian McConnell Book Award winner Vaccinations and Public Concern in History and coeditor of Diagnosing Folklore.

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Éditeur
Utah State University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1607329263
ISBN 13 
9781607329268
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
202
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