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The Kiss of Death

Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore

By: Andrea Kitta

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The Kiss of Death

Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore

By: Andrea Kitta

Disease is a social issue, not just a medical issue. Using examples of specific legends and rumors, The Kiss of Death explores the beliefs and practices that permeate notions of contagion and contamination. Author Andrea Kitta offers new insight into the nature of vernacular conceptions of health and sickness and how medical and scientific institutions can use cultural literacy to better meet their communities’ needs. Using ethnographic, media, and narrative analysis, this book explores the vernacular explanatory models used in decisions concerning contagion to better understand the real fears, risks, concerns, and doubts of the public. Kitta explores immigration and patient zero, zombies and vampires, Slender Man, HPV, and the kiss of death legend, as well as systematic racism, homophobia, and misogyny in North American culture, to examine the nature of contagion and contamination. Conversations about health and risk cannot take place without considering positionality and intersectionality. In The Kiss of Death, Kitta isolates areas that require better communication and greater cultural sensitivity in the handling of infectious disease, public health, and other health-related disciplines and industries.

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University Press of Colorado

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1607329271

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The Kiss of Death

Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore

By: Andrea Kitta

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Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore

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Vaccinations and Public Concern in History

Legend, Rumor, and Risk Perception

By: Andrea Kitta

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Vaccinations and Public Concern in History

Legend, Rumor, and Risk Perception

By: Andrea Kitta

Vaccinations and Public Concern in History explores vernacular beliefs and practices that surround decisions not to vaccinate. Through the use of ethnographic, media, and narrative analyses, this book explores the vernacular explanatory models used in inoculation decision-making. The research on which the book draws was designed to help create public health education programs and promotional materials that respond to patients’ fears, understandings of risk, concerns, and doubts. Exploring the nature of inoculation distrust and miscommunication, Dr. Andrea Kitta identifies areas that require better public health communication and greater cultural sensitivity in the handling of inoculation programs.

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Routledge

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1136577084

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Purifying a House from Blood

A Hittite Ritual for the Ancient Gods (CTH 446)

By: Andrea Trameri

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Purifying a House from Blood

A Hittite Ritual for the Ancient Gods (CTH 446)

By: Andrea Trameri

The Hittite ritual for the Ancient Gods (CTH 446) is one of the most interesting and complex in the Hittite ritual corpus. It describes a series of ritual procedures and recitations to be performed over two days with the goal of cleansing a house contaminated by impurity resulting from bloodshed. Summoned for the task are the Ancient Gods, Netherworld deities of the Hurrian-Hittite tradition. The present study provides an updated critical edition of this remarkable ritual, which is complemented with philological notes and commentary. Additionally, the volume investigates the nature and origins of the composition against the broader background of the Hittite ritual corpus.

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Lockwood Press

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1948488760

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Vaccinations and Public Concern in History

Legend, Rumor, and Risk Perception

By: Andrea Kitta

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Legend, Rumor, and Risk Perception

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The Kiss of Death

The Kiss of Death

The Kiss of Death

The Kiss of Death

Vaccinations and Public Concern in History

Vaccinations and Public Concern in History

Purifying a House from Blood

Purifying a House from Blood

Vaccinations and Public Concern in History

Vaccinations and Public Concern in History

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