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The Viral Underclass - The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide (Paperback) Loot Price: R492
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The Viral Underclass - The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide (Paperback): Steven W Thrasher

The Viral Underclass - The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide (Paperback)

Steven W Thrasher

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From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful and crucial exploration of one of the most pressing issues of our times: how viruses expose the fault lines of society.

Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to survive viruses and that the ways in which viruses spread, kill, and take their toll are much more dependent on social structures than they are on biology alone.

Told through the heart-rending stories of friends, activists, and teachers navigating the novel coronavirus, HIV, and other viruses, Dr. Thrasher brings the reader with him as he delves into the viral underclass and lays bare its inner workings. In the tradition of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste and Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, The Viral Underclass helps us understand the world more deeply by showing the fraught relationship between privilege and survival.

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Imprint: St Martin's Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2024
Authors: Steven W Thrasher
Dimensions: 210 x 137 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-79664-6
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics
Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Epidemiology & medical statistics
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Social impact of disasters > General
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LSN: 1-250-79664-4
Barcode: 9781250796646

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