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."
Summary
Shows how narratives of contagion structure communities of belonging and how the lessons of these narratives are incorporated into sociological theories of cultural transmission and community formation
Notes
"A John Hope Franklin Center book"--Page i
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-351) and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed October 22, 2020)
