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Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion (eBook, PDF)

Infectious Corpses and Contested Burials

Redaktion: Lynteris, Christos; Evans, Nicholas H A

Beschreibung

Explores for the first time the social, cultural and medical history of human corpses and burials comparatively

Offers insight into an international selection of epidemics from the fourteenth century to the present day

Reveals findings of interest to historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and public health experts

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
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• Größe: 3.23MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Christos Lynteris is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK, and Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded research project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic. He is the author of The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China (Palgrave, 2012) and Ethnographic Plague (Palgrave, 2016).  Nicholas H. A. Evans is a Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, UK. His work focuses on understanding the comparative and historical nature of doubt and uncertainty, and he was a member (2014-17) of the Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic project at the University of Cambridge.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319629292
• Artikelnr.: 52941741

Rezensionen

"The book ... is an essential and powerful work of compilation of diverse experiences related to epidemics, body dumping, fear of contamination, hasty burials, isolation, plague riots, all themes of the greatest relevance today. ... It is written in a language accessible to all audiences and achieves the goal of the series Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History to cut across conventional academic boundaries through stimulating interdisciplinary approaches. ... This book definitely held my interest." (Simone Rodrigues Pinto, Human Remains and Violence, Vol. 8 (1), April, 2022)