Contagion Paperback / softback
by Alison Bashford, Claire Hooker
Part of the Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine series
Paperback / softback
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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages, 1 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:10/04/2014
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- ISBN:9780415758468
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages, 1 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:10/04/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415758468
