1st Edition
HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China Imagined Immunity Through Racialized Disease
By Johanna Hood
Copyright 2011
256 Pages
40 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
40 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Approximately 90% of urban HIV/AIDS education in China occurs indirectly through non-specialist media reports. Many of these reports use images of extreme suffering and poverty to communicate an understanding of who gets HIV, why and how. This book explores an important aspect of how HIV/AIDS is communicated in China’s print media, posters, websites and television, suggesting that its association... Read more
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
Biography
Johanna Hood is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Society and Globalisation at Roskilde University, Denmark.
