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Author Kitta, Andrea, 1977- author.

Title The kiss of death : contagion, contamination, and folklore / Andrea Kitta
Published Logan : Utah State University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 189 pages) : color maps
Contents The disease is coming from inside the house! Contagious disease, immigration, and patient zero -- Supernatural contagion : slender man, suicide, violence, and slender sickness -- "Why buy the cow when the milk has HPV?" : the HPV vaccine, promiscuity, sexual orientation, and vulnerable people -- The kiss of death
Summary "Disease is a social issue, not just a medical issue. Using specific legends and rumors, and exploring beliefs and practices that permeate notions of contagion and contamination, Kitta offers insight into vernacular conceptions of health and sickness and how medical and scientific institutions can use cultural literacy"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 09, 2019)
Subject Communicable diseases -- Folklore
Communicable diseases -- Transmission.
Communicable diseases -- Psychological aspects
Epidemics -- Social aspects
Fear of contamination -- Folklore
Folklore -- Psychological aspects
Health attitudes.
Disease Transmission, Infectious
Attitude to Health
Fear of contamination
Communicable diseases
Communicable diseases -- Transmission
Epidemics -- Social aspects
Folklore -- Psychological aspects
Health attitudes
Genre/Form Folklore
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1607329271
9781607329275