Contagion and infection
By: Arnold Weinstein, issue editor
Series: Literature and medicine -- v. 22, no. 1; Literature and medicine -- v. 22, no. 1.
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Baltimore, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: Medicine in Literature; Plague; History, 18th Century; Infections; Communicable Diseases
Notes: "Spring 2003."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Contagion and blame in early modern England: the case of the French Pox; title: Defoe's journal and the English plague writing tradition; title: Infectious wit: metaphor, atheism, and the plague in Eighteenth-Century London; title: Narrating the unexceptional: the are of medical inquiry in Victorian England and the present; title: Microbiography and resistance in the human culture medium; title: Afterword: Infection as metaphor.