Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies (Routledge studies in the social history of medicine) - Softcover

Bashford, Alison; Hooker, Claire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415758467 ISBN 13: 9780415758468

Verlag: Routledge, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Alison Bashford (Author) ,  Claire Hooker (Author)

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415758467
• ISBN 13: 9780415758468
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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