Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires : AIDS in the News Media, Paperback by Lupton, Deborah, ISBN 0748401806, ISBN-13 9780748401802, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Explores the key role mass media have played in constructing public understanding of the AIDS epidemic, including how the media manage the tension between AIDS as a scourge of demographic minorities and AIDS as a threat to all, and how media messages about the disease have changed over time. These and other issues are examined from an interdisciplinary perspective, using insights from cultural studies, the history of medicine and contemporary social theory. Appendices chronicle AIDS-related items in the Australian press. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.