HIV/AIDS, health and the media in China imagined immunity through racialized disease

HIV/AIDS is an increasingly serious problem in China, with an increasing number of new cases every year. As a result, HIV organizations have boomed, with both state and non-governmental organisations responding to the threat with campaigns to increase public awareness of the disease, utilising the m...

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Other Authors: Hood, Johanna., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge 2011.
Series:Media, culture, and social change in Asia series ; 23.
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Summary:HIV/AIDS is an increasingly serious problem in China, with an increasing number of new cases every year. As a result, HIV organizations have boomed, with both state and non-governmental organisations responding to the threat with campaigns to increase public awareness of the disease, utilising the media as the primary tool to reshape citizens' understandings and views of HIV/AIDS. This book explores how HIV/AIDS is portrayed in China's media. It argues that, despite increasing education campaigns, media coverage and social and academic openness towards HIV/AIDS, many Chinese of the majority
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (257 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781136838958
9781283104784
9786613104786
9781136838965
9780203832813