Contagion

by Claire Hooker and Alison Bashford

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415758467
• ISBN13: 9780415758468
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages