TY - BOOK AU - Foss,Katherine A. TI - Constructing the outbreak: epidemics in media and collective memory SN - 9781613767771 AV - PN4888 .C667 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - Amherst PB - University of Massachusetts Press KW - Epidemics KW - Press coverage KW - United States KW - History KW - Journalism KW - Social aspects KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2698521&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -