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Contagion : epidemics, history and culture from small pox to anthrax / edited by Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker
Bib ID 515151
Format BookBook
Description Annandale, N.S.W. : Pluto Press, Hazard Press, 2002 
xii, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 1864031816 :  1864031816 :  1864031816 
Summary

Takes the reader down a little-known but fascinating historical path, exploring cultural responses to infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also investigates the use of contagion as a concept in post-modern rethinking about the body.

Full contents
  • Introduction: contagion, modernity and postmodernity / Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker
  • 1. The meaning of contagion: reproduction, medicine and metaphor / Margaret Pelling
  • 2. Foreign bodies: vaccination, contagion and colonialism in the nineteenth century / Alison Bashford
  • 3. Moral contagion and the will: the crisis of masculinity in fin-de-siecle France / Christopher E. Forth
  • 4. Excremental colonialism: public health and the poetics of pollution / Warwick Anderson
  • 5. Leprosy and the management of race, sexuality and nation in tropical Australia / Alison Bashford and Maria Nugent
  • 6. Sanitary failure and risk: pasteurisation, immunisation and the logics of prevention / Claire Hooker
  • 7. Vulnerable bodies and ontological contamination / Margrit Shildrick
  • 8. A pig's tale: porcine viruses and species boundaries / Marsha Rosengarten
  • 9. Taking the HIV test: self-surveillance and the making of heterosexuality / Lisa Adkins
 
Notes

First published: London : Routledge, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects Public health - History.  |  Disease outbreaks - History.  |  Epidemics - History.  |  Epidemics - Social aspects.  |  Public health - History.  |  Public health - Social aspects.
Other authors/contributors Bashford, Alison, 1963-  |  Hooker, Claire, 1971-

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