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Histories of Post-Mortem ContagionIntroduction: The Challenge of the Epidemic Corpse

Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion: Introduction: The Challenge of the Epidemic Corpse [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 threaten central presumptions within social theory. This introduction begins the task of sketching a comparative history of the epidemic corpse as a generative feature of social debate and contestation, from ancient Greece to the present. We take this comparative approach as the basis for rethinking the notion of contagion within the medical humanities more broadly, and we propose a new reading of epidemics as episodes of material production.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Histories of Post-Mortem ContagionIntroduction: The Challenge of the Epidemic Corpse

Part of the Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History Book Series
Editors: Lynteris, Christos; Evans, Nicholas H A
Lynteris, Christos; Evans, Nicholas H. A.
Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion — Dec 16, 2017
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
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978-3-319-62928-5
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1 –25
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-62929-2_1
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[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 threaten central presumptions within social theory. This introduction begins the task of sketching a comparative history of the epidemic corpse as a generative feature of social debate and contestation, from ancient Greece to the present. We take this comparative approach as the basis for rethinking the notion of contagion within the medical humanities more broadly, and we propose a new reading of epidemics as episodes of material production.]

Published: Dec 16, 2017

Keywords: Outbreak Narrative; Epistemic Things; Human Cadaver; Historian Thucydides; Pariset

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