Ebook: Contagionism and Contagious Diseases
Author: Thomas Rutten Martina King
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- Series: Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft/ Spectrum Literature
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Language: English
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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.
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