Title: Contagion
Description: 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.--
Subjects: HEALTH & FITNESS, Contagious, Public Health, Social medicine, Essays, Infectious Diseases, Diseases, History of Medicine, 19th Cent, Social aspects, History of Medicine, 20th Cent, Infection, Culture, History, MEDICAL, Communicable diseases, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century, Infections, Maladies infectieuses, Aspect social, Histoire, Médecine, Culture note