Contagion
1st Edition
Published on 10. April 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-415-75846-8 (ISBN)
Description
In the age of HIV, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the Ebola Virus and BSE, metaphors and experience of contagion are a central concern of government, biomedicine and popular culture.
Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also investigates the use of 'contagion' as a concept in postmodern reconceptualisations of embodied subjectivity.
The essays are written from within the fields of cultural studies, biomedical history and critical sociology. The contributors examine the geographies, policies and identities which have been produced in the massive social effort to contain diseases. They explore both social responses to infectious diseases in the past, and contemporary theoretical and biomedical sites for the study of contagion.
Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also investigates the use of 'contagion' as a concept in postmodern reconceptualisations of embodied subjectivity.
The essays are written from within the fields of cultural studies, biomedical history and critical sociology. The contributors examine the geographies, policies and identities which have been produced in the massive social effort to contain diseases. They explore both social responses to infectious diseases in the past, and contemporary theoretical and biomedical sites for the study of contagion.
Reviews / Votes
'A thought-provoking edited collection that permeates the boundaries between history, sociology, geography and the health sciences.'- Medical History, January 2005, 49 (1)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 s/w Tabelle
1 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
362 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-75846-8 (9780415758468)
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Alison Bashford | Claire Hooker
Contagion
Book
06/2001
1st Edition
Routledge
€237.70
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Persons
Alison Bashford (Author) , Claire Hooker (Author)
Content
Introduction
Contagion, Modernity and Postmodernity
Contagion and Cultural Histories of the Modern World
1. The Meaning of Contagion: Reproduction, Medicine and Metaphore
2. Foreign Bodies: Vaccination, Contagion and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century
3. Moral Contagion and the Will: The Crisis of Masculinity in Fin-de-Siecle France
4. Excremental Colonialism: Public Health and the Poetics of Pollution
5. Leprosy and the Management of Race, Sexuality and Nation in Tropical Australia
6. Sanitary Failure and Risk: Pasteurisation, Immunisation and the Logics of Prevention
Contaminating Capacities in Postmodernity 7. Vulnerable Bodies and Ontological Contamination
8. A Pig's Tale: Porcine Viruses and Species Boundaries
9. Taking the HIV Test: Self-Surveillance and the Making of Heterosexuality
10. The Promiscuous Placenta: Crossing Over
11. Carrier - Becoming Symborg
Contagion, Modernity and Postmodernity
Contagion and Cultural Histories of the Modern World
1. The Meaning of Contagion: Reproduction, Medicine and Metaphore
2. Foreign Bodies: Vaccination, Contagion and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century
3. Moral Contagion and the Will: The Crisis of Masculinity in Fin-de-Siecle France
4. Excremental Colonialism: Public Health and the Poetics of Pollution
5. Leprosy and the Management of Race, Sexuality and Nation in Tropical Australia
6. Sanitary Failure and Risk: Pasteurisation, Immunisation and the Logics of Prevention
Contaminating Capacities in Postmodernity 7. Vulnerable Bodies and Ontological Contamination
8. A Pig's Tale: Porcine Viruses and Species Boundaries
9. Taking the HIV Test: Self-Surveillance and the Making of Heterosexuality
10. The Promiscuous Placenta: Crossing Over
11. Carrier - Becoming Symborg