Animals and Epidemics
Gebundenes Buch

Animals and Epidemics

Interspecies Entanglements in Historical Perspective

Herausgegeben: Hüntelmann, Axel C.; Jaser, Christian; Roscher, Mieke; Weber, Nadir;Mitarbeit: Duarte da Silva, Matheus Alves; Berdah, Delphine; Cole, Lucinda; Glaubrecht, Matthias; Hünniger, Dominik; Hünte
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Suspicious bats, culled mink, valuable monkeys, and vaccinated tigers: the recent global pandemic has demonstrated the close interconnectedness of animal and human lives in the modern world. The human attribution of epidemic agency to animals has a long historical tradition, as narratives about animal diseases in antiquity already attest. The contributions to this volume focus on animals as victims, hosts, or vectors of dangerous diseases - or, since the late eighteenth century, also as producers of vaccines and test bodies for new medicines. They also show how epistemic breaks such as the bac...
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