Buch(elektronisch)2013

Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires: AIDS in the News Media

In: Social Aspects of AIDS

Lupton, Deborah

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Abstract

Since 1981, AIDS has had an enormous impact upon the popular imagination. Few other diseases this century have been greeted with quite the same fear, loathing, and prejudice against those who develop it. The mass media, and in particular, the news media, have played a vital part in ""making sense"" of AIDS. This volume takes an interdisciplinary perspective, combining cultural studies, history of medicine, and contemporary social theory to examine AIDS reporting. There have been three major themes dominating coverage: the ""gay-plague"" dominant in the early 1980s, panic-stricken visions of th