| Bib ID |
515151 |
| Format |
Book, Online - Google Books |
| Description |
Annandale, N.S.W. : Pluto Press, Hazard Press, 2002
xii, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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| ISBN |
1864031816 : 1864031816 : 1864031816
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| 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.
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| 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
- 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
- 10. The promiscuous placneta: crossing over / Jane-Maree Maher
- 11. Carrier - becoming symborg / Melinda Rackham
- Epilogue. Disinfecting mail - from smallpox to anthrax / Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker.
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| Notes |
First published: London : Routledge, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Subjects |
Public health - History. | Disease outbreaks - History. | Epidemics - History. | Epidemics - Social aspects. | Public health - History. | Public health - Social aspects.
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| Other authors/contributors |
Bashford, Alison, 1963- | Hooker, Claire, 1971-
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