...narratives, medical and public health discourse, and actual behaviors related to HIV risk perception. Goldstein aims to show the ways in which these popular narratives work with and against official narratives about HIV, AIDS, and the risks of infection, as well as the roles that contemporary legends play in the success or failure of public health messages about risk behaviors and practices.

The four narrative case studies in the middle chapters make up the heart of the text and deserve close attention. Each chapter takes contemporary legend or group of legends as they appeared in Newfoundland at specific times and discusses them at length. Taken together, they reveal the interrelationships among narrative, public discourse, social practice, and private behavior. These studies underscore the need to look at contemporary legends within their localized contexts and the ways in which narratives are taken up and modified by the people of a community so that they maintain relevance to that community. Goldstein's analysis in these chapters demonstrates the influence that legends have on the behavior of a specific population at a particular moment...

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