Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times /

"This book offers an original, multidisciplinary approach to the global history of pandemics, focusing on the making and circulation of visual images. It will interest specialists in medical humanities, visual studies, history of disease, history and theory of photography, visual anthropology,...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Lynteris, Christos (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Edition:	1st ed. 2021.
Series:	Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
Subjects:	History. Medicine-History. Civilization-History. Motion pictures. Arts. History of Science. History of Medicine. Cultural History. Audio-Visual Culture. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Imaging and Imagining Plague- Christos Lynteris
2. Why Is Black Death Black? European Gothic Imaginaries of 'Oriental' Plague- Nükhet Varlık
3. Painting the Plague: 1250-1630- Sheila Barker
4. Pesthouse Imaginaries- Ann G. Carmichael
5. Picturing Plague: Photography, Pestilence and Cremation in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century India- David Arnold
6. Reflexive Gaze and Constructed Meanings: Photographs of Plague Hospitals in Colonial Bombay- Abhijit Sarkar
7. Plague in India: Contagion, Quarantine, and the Transmission of Scientific Knowledge- Samuel Cohn Jr.
8. Bamboo Dwellers: Plague, Photography and the House in Colonial Java- Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk
9. Making a Model Plague: Paper Technologies and Epidemiological Casuistry in the Early Twentieth Century- Lukas Engelmann
10. Ethnographic Images of the Plague: Outbreak and the Landscape of Memory in Madagascar- Genese Marie Sodikoff and Z. R. Dieudonné Rasolonomenjanahary.