HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China

Author: Johanna Hood
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0415860733
Category: Medical

HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China: Imagined Immunity Through Racialized Disease (Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series)

Approximately 90% of urban HIV/AIDS education in China occurs indirectly through non-specialist media reports. Download HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China medical books for free.
Many of these reports use images of extreme suffering and poverty to communicate an understanding of who gets HIV, why and how. This book explores an important aspect of how HIV/AIDS is communicated in China's print media, posters, websites and television, suggesting that its association with Africa and Africans - portrayed as a distant and backward land and people - has impacted understandings of HIV/AIDS. It demonstrates how, in China's media, Africans are frequently used to embody the most extreme possibilities of poverty and disease, in contrast with the progressive, scientifically sophisticated Han Chinese, which has en Get HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China our bestseller medical books.

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Many of these reports use images of extreme suffering and poverty to communicate an understanding of who gets HIV, why and how It demonstrates how, in China's media, Africans are frequently used to embody the most extreme possibilities of poverty and disease, in contrast with the progressive, scientifically sophisticated Han Chinese, which has en

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