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Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies (Studies in the Social History of Medicine) by Alison Bashford; Claire Hooker; NetLibrary, Inc is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 stu
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alison Bashford; Claire Hooker; NetLibrary, Inc
- Publisher
- London ; New York: Routledge
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780203453087
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Medical, History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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