Contagionism and Contagious Diseases
| Autor: | Thomas Rütten, Martina King |
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| EAN: | 9783110306118 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | eBook |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 27.11.2013 |
| Untertitel: | Medicine and Literature 1880-1933 |
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| Schlagworte: | Ansteckung Bakteriologie Contagionism; bacteriology; literary Modernism; illness narratives; medical metaphors Krankheitsnarrative Literarische Moderne Metaphern medizinische |
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Understanding how ‘contagion’ and ‘infection’ have become powerful metaphors requires a historical reconstruction of this semantic field in the late 19th and early 20th century, when these concepts acquired a scientific meaning. The volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to the cultural history of contagionism between medical bacteriology, the social sciences and literary adaptations. The symbolic implications of ‘contagion’ and high-profile contagious diseases are addressed, which mark the boundaries between sick and healthy, familiar and alien, morally pure and impure.
Martina King, University of Bern, Switzerland; Thomas Rütten, Newcastle University, UK.
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