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Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine) - Softcover

Book 11 of 35: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

Bashford, Alison; Hooker, Claire

 
9780415758468: Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415758467 ISBN 13: 9780415758468
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

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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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415758467
ISBN 13 
9780415758468
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256