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Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion

Part of the Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History Book Series

Editors: Lynteris, Christos; Evans, Nicholas H A

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62929-2

ISBN: 978-3-319-62928-5

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Dec 16, 2017

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: The Challenge of the Epidemic Corpse

Lynteris, Christos; Evans, Nicholas H. A.

Pages: 1 –25

[The epidemic corpse has long been understood as a locus of social, moral, and biological danger. In various historical and contemporary settings, it has been seen to pose a challenge to society to which there is no easy response. We ask how the epidemic corpse might also be seen to challenge and...
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Chapter 2Failed Ritual? Medieval Papal Funerals and the Death of Clement VI (1352)

Rollo-Koster, Joëlle

Pages: 27 –53

[It is the purpose of this chapter to investigate if and how the arrival of the Black Death in 1348 influenced the burial practice and funerary ritual of the late medieval papacy using the case of Clement VI’s 1352 burial as a test. After reviewing summarily the recent historiography on the Black...
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Chapter 3Fear and the Corpse: Cholera and Plague Riots Compared

Cohn, Samuel

Pages: 55 –81

[Ever since Barthold Georg Niebuhr’s lectures on ancient history in 1816, scholars have depicted epidemics as giving rise to hate, violence, and the stigmatization of the ‘other’. Acts of charity, the sacrifices of individuals and communities, and forces of unity have thus been largely...
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Chapter 4Bloeming-Typhoidtein: Epidemic Jingoism and the Typhoid Corpse in South Africa

Steere-Williams, Jacob

Pages: 83 –108

[Steere-Williams examines the largest recorded outbreak of typhoid fever in modern British history, during the South African War (1899–1902). Analyzing contemporary works in military medicine and bacteriology, as well as texts in imperial gothic literature and parliamentary debates, the chapter...
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Chapter 5Suspicious Corpses: Body Dumping and Plague in Colonial Hong Kong

Lynteris, Christos

Pages: 109 –133

[Between 1894 and 1926 bubonic plague raged on almost annual basis in Hong Kong, causing thousands of deaths, mainly among the Chinese population of the British colony. In the course of this long epidemic, British authorities took drastic and often draconian measures against the disease, whose...
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Chapter 6Composing and Decomposing Bodies: Visualizing Death and Disease in an Era of Global War, Pestilence, and Famine, 1913–1923

Budd, Michael Anton

Pages: 135 –164

[This chapter explores conflict, crisis, and contagion as well as mass death at a time when dramatic new methods were being used to record this. Advancing imaging technologies were developing as part of a visual regime of capture, counting, and containment joining popular culture, state...
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Chapter 7Shrouded Corpses, Walking Cadavers: The Shifting of ‘the Choleras’ in Depictions of Southeastern Captivity

Oliver, Lizzie

Pages: 165 –187

[Presenting rare photography from camps on the Thailand–Burma railway, this chapter traces the spread and treatment of cholera in captivity during World War II through to its post-war depiction in second-generation fiction. Analysis of visual depictions alongside the diaries, memoirs, and medical...
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Chapter 8The Burial Pit as Bio-historical Archive

Engelmann, Lukas

Pages: 189 –211

[Recent historical research on the bubonic plague has been heavily impacted by historical biological data. Ancient DNA, the technology to trace bacteria in human remains, has turned burial grounds from places reminiscent of epidemic disasters into resourceful biohistorical archives. Mobilizing...
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Chapter 9Postscript: Epidemic History and the Ebola Present

Fairhead, James

Pages: 213 –221

[This postscript reflects on the social dimensions of the high mortality epidemics documented in this volume in relation to the recent West African Ebola epidemic of 2013–2016. The aim is to discern inspiration and hypotheses for further comparative analysis. It argues that global and national...
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Chapter 10Erratum to: Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion

Lynteris, Christos; Evans, Nicholas H. A.

Pages: E1 –E1

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