Notorious H.I.V : the media spectacle of Nushawn Williams / Thomas Shevory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shevory, Thomas C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners--Diseases--United States--Case studies.

Prisoners.

AIDS (Disease)--United States--Case studies.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease) in mass media--United States--Case studies.

AIDS (Disease) in mass media.

Williams, Nushawn.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1997, public authorities were granted an exception to New York's HIV confidentiality law-and released Nushawn Williams's name and picture to the press. Williams, who is HIV-positive, had had unprotected sex with young women and infected at least nine of them. Thomas Shevory sorts through the ensuing media panic and legal imbroglio to tell the story behind the Nushawn Williams case.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Moral Panics and Media Politics; 2. Small-Town Mythologies and the History of a Place; 3. Of Myths and Monsters; 4. State Power, Law, and the Sequestration of Disease; 5. HIV Culpability and the Politics of Crime; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816695898

081669589X

OCLC:

171126930