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Comment un virus H1N1, dont la source et le nom demeurent troubles, a-t-il pu faire plus de ravages encore que la Peste noire du XIVe siècle ? A l'heure du 100e anniversaire de la pandémie de grippe espagnole, et alors que nous sommes à nouveau confrontés à de violentes épidémies - Ebola, SIDA, ZIKA -, Laura Spinney ravive la mémoire collective de cet événement inouï et adopte une approche narrative pour le restituer dans toute sa complexité. Elle revient aux origines de la maladie, étudie sa composition et ses particularités génétiques, reconstitue étape par étape le déroulement de la catastrophe au fil de tragédies individuelles poignantes, révèle la surprenante virulence, l'extrême étendue et la foudroyante rapidité de l'infection, et considère son impact non seulement sur les sociétés de l'époque, mais aussi sur la naissance des futures politiques de santé. Cette enquête entraîne le lecteur bien au-delà de l'Europe déchirée par la Première Guerre mondiale, des Etats-Unis à l'Iran, de l'Inde à l'Alaska, de la Russie à la Chine, en passant par le Brésil et l'Afrique du Sud, à mesure que sont tirés de l'oubli les témoignages de personnages, célèbres comme anonymes, confrontés à la maladie. A l'échelle du globe, avec ses 50 à 100 millions de morts, la grippe espagnole fit plus de victimes que les deux guerres mondiales réunies, et fut sans doute la plus grande pandémie que l'humanité ait jamais connue.

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Outbreak narratives have proliferated for the past quarter century, and now they have reached epidemic proportions. From 28 Days Later to 24 to The Walking Dead, movies, TV shows, and books are filled with zombie viruses, bioengineered plagues, and disease-ravaged bands of survivors. Even news reports indulge in thrilling scenarios about potential global pandemics like SARS and Ebola. Why have outbreak narratives infected our public discourse, and how have they affected the way Americans view the world? In Going Viral, Dahlia Schweitzer probes outbreak narratives in film, television, and a variety of other media, putting them in conversation with rhetoric from government authorities and news organizations that have capitalized on public fears about our changing world. She identifies three distinct types of outbreak narrative, each corresponding to a specific contemporary anxiety: globalization, terrorism, and the end of civilization. Schweitzer considers how these fears, stoked by both fictional outbreak narratives and official sources, have influenced the ways Americans relate to their neighbors, perceive foreigners, and regard social institutions. Looking at everything from I Am Legend to The X Files to World War Z, this book examines how outbreak narratives both excite and horrify us, conjuring our nightmares while letting us indulge in fantasies about fighting infected Others. Going Viral thus raises provocative questions about the cost of public paranoia and the power brokers who profit from it. Supplemental Study Materials for "Going Viral": https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/going-viral-dahlia-schweitzer Dahlia Schweitzer- Going Viral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xF0V7WL9ow

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The Bushbuckridge region of South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. Having first arrived in the area in the early 1990s, the disease spread rapidly, and by 2008 life expectancies had fallen by 12 years for men and 14 years for women. Since 2005, public health facilities have increasingly offered free HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) treatment, offering a modicum of hope, but uptake and adherence to the therapy has been sporadic and uneven. Drawing on his extensive ethnographic research, carried out in Bushbuckridge over the course of 25 years, Isak Niehaus reveals how the AIDS pandemic has been experienced at the village-level. Most significantly, he shows how local cultural practices and values have shaped responses to the epidemic. For example, while local attitudes towards death and misfortune have contributed to the stigma around AIDS, kinship structures have also facilitated the adoption and care of AIDS orphans. Such practices challenge us to rethink the role played by culture in understanding and treating sickness, with Niehaus showing how an appreciation of local beliefs and customs is essential to any effective strategy of AIDS treatment. Overturning many of the Universalist assumptions on disease prevention, the book is essential reading for practitioners as well as researchers in global health, anthropology, sociology, epidemiology and scholars interested in public health and administration in the sub-Saharan region.

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