Ethnographic Plague (Hardcover)

Name: Ethnographic Plague
Author: Christos Lynteris

Configuring Disease on the Chinese-Russian Frontier

von Christos Lynteris Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

1st ed. 2016 - Erschienen 11.08.2016 - Gebunden, 220 Seiten, 216mm x 153mm x 17mm, Sprache(n): eng

Print on Demand. Lieferbar innerhalb von 7 bis 10 Tagen

Challenges the established history of modern plague science A much-needed and significant contribution to the history of medicine, epidemiology and medical anthropology A must-read for graduate students of anthropology, history of medicine, history and philosophy of science, STS and Asian studies

Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to the configuration of plague at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a focus on research on the Chinese-Russian frontier, where a series of pneumonic plague epidemics shook the Chinese, Russian and Japanese Empires, this book examines how native Mongols and Buryats came to be understood as holding a traditional knowledge of the disease. Exploring the forging and consequences of this alluring theory, this book seeks to understand medical fascination with culture, so as to underline the limitations of the employment of the latter as an explanatory category in the context of infectious disease epidemics, such as the recent SARS and Ebola outbreaks.

Christos Lynteris is a social anthropologist working on biopolitical and visual aspects of infectious disease epidemics. He is Senior Research Associate at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, UK, and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council funded project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic. He is also the author of The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China (2012).

Christos Lynteris is a social anthropologist working on biopolitical and visual aspects of infectious disease epidemics. He is Senior Research Associate at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, UK, and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council funded project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic. He is also the author of The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China (2012).

Produktart:

📚 Bücher

Anbieter:

MARZIES Buch- und Medienhandel

Bestell-Nr.:

A26454074

Kategorie(n):

ISBN:

1137596848

EAN: