Contagion

Name: Contagion
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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By: Alison Bashford, Claire Hooker

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Paperback | 10 April 2014 | Edition Number 1

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256 Pages

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23.4 x 15.6 x 1.27

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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.

Industry Reviews

'A thought-provoking edited collection that permeates the boundaries between history, sociology, geography and the health sciences.'- Medical History, January 2005, 49 (1)

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