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Constructing the outbreak epidemics in media and collective memory / Katherine A. Foss.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781613767771
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN4888 .C667 2020
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Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Epidemics in Media -- Telling the Story of Disease -- Chapter 1. Inoculating the Speckled Monster -- The Boston Press in the 1721 Smallpox Epidemic -- Chapter 2. Philadelphia 1793 -- Yellow Fever Shapes the Town and Nation -- Chapter 3. From Health Seeker to Stigmatized -- The Recognition of TB as Contagious -- Chapter 4. Blaming the Healthy Carrier -- Typhoid Fever and the Case of Mary Mallon -- Chapter 5. "The Kaiser Laughs When you Spread Disease"
Chapter 6. Racing "The Strangler" -- The Nome Diphtheria Outbreak of 1925 -- Chapter 7. Funding the "Polio Pledge" -- The March of Dimes and the Forgotten Epidemic of 1952 -- Conclusion: Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Tells the Story? -- Concluding Thoughts on Media and Epidemics -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Epidemics in Media -- Telling the Story of Disease -- Chapter 1. Inoculating the Speckled Monster -- The Boston Press in the 1721 Smallpox Epidemic -- Chapter 2. Philadelphia 1793 -- Yellow Fever Shapes the Town and Nation -- Chapter 3. From Health Seeker to Stigmatized -- The Recognition of TB as Contagious -- Chapter 4. Blaming the Healthy Carrier -- Typhoid Fever and the Case of Mary Mallon -- Chapter 5. "The Kaiser Laughs When you Spread Disease"

Influenza and the "Great War" in Lawrence, Kansas -- Chapter 6. Racing "The Strangler" -- The Nome Diphtheria Outbreak of 1925 -- Chapter 7. Funding the "Polio Pledge" -- The March of Dimes and the Forgotten Epidemic of 1952 -- Conclusion: Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Tells the Story? -- Concluding Thoughts on Media and Epidemics -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover

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