Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative (John Hope Franklin Center Books) (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)

by PriscillaWald (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2008

  $29.66

  Argues that we need to understand the appeal and persistence of the outbreak narrative because the stories we tell about disease emergence have consequences. This title presents cautionary tale about how the stories we tell circumscribe our thinking about global health and human interactions as the world imagines the next Great Plague.