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A Pandemic of Terror and Terror of a Pandemic: American Cultural Responses to HIV/AIDS and Bioterrorism
Author(s) -
Strassberg Barbara Ann
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2004.00589.x
Subject(s) - pandemic , terrorism , context (archaeology) , criminology , power (physics) , human sexuality , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , political science , public health , sociology , covid-19 , gender studies , medicine , history , virology , law , physics , disease , nursing , archaeology , pathology , quantum mechanics , infectious disease (medical specialty)
. The cultural construction of American societal responses to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and terrorism is addressed. The use of metaphors of war, survival, extinction, and of those related to God in public narratives is analyzed. Issues of gender, sexuality, money, and power are also discussed within the context of the religion‐science dialogue. Suggestions are made about a possibility for a global ethic of survival based on an ethic of care.