Johanna Hood

HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China

Imagined Immunity Through Racialized Disease

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Produktbeschreibung

HIV/AIDS is an increasingly serious problem in China. This book explores HIV/AIDS, its portrayal in China's media, and the implications for public health policy. It discusses how many Chinese wrongly believe themselves to be immune, with infection only a possibility for other ethnic groups with perceived lower moral standards.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780415471985
• ISBN-10: 0415471982
• Artikelnr.: 23605007

Autorenporträt

Johanna Hood is a member of the China Research Centre at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. At the Intersections of HIV/AIDS: Power
Disease
Others
and China's Media 2. China's Media: Telling and Knowing HIV/AIDS 3. Differentiating Understandings: hei Black and Blackness
Race
and Place 4. Hei: Africa
Africans and HIV/AIDS 5. Yuanshi: Presenting the Origin and Primitive Circumstances of HIV/AIDS in Africa 6. Kexue: Scientism and HIV/AIDS