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Author Hood, Johanna.

Title HIV/AIDS, health, and the media in China : imagined immunity through racialized disease / Johanna Hood
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) : illustrations
Series Media, culture and social change in Asia ; 23
Media, culture, and social change in Asia series ; 23.
Contents At the intersections of HIV/AIDS : power, disease, others, and China's media -- China's media : telling and knowing HIV/AIDS -- Differentiating understandings : hei black and blackness, race, and place -- Hei : Africa, Africans, and HIV/AIDS -- Yuanshi : presenting the origin and primitive circumstances of HIV/AIDS in Africa -- Kexue : scientism and HIV/AIDS
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-231) and index
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In EBL
Subject AIDS (Disease) -- China
AIDS (Disease) in mass media.
Manners and customs.
Mass media.
HIV Infections -- ethnology
HIV Infections -- psychology
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- ethnology
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- psychology
Cultural Characteristics
Mass Media
mass media.
customs (social concepts)
MEDICAL -- AIDS & HIV.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- AIDS & HIV.
Mass media
Manners and customs
AIDS (Disease)
AIDS (Disease) in mass media
AIDS.
Massamedia.
Rassendiscriminatie.
SUBJECT China
Subject China
China.
Afrika.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203832813
0203832817
9781136838965
1136838961
9781136838910
1136838910
9781136838958
1136838953
9780415860734
0415860733