Contagion : historical and cultural studies /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2001.
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| Series: | Studies in the social history of medicine.
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Table of Contents:
- The meaning of contagion : reproduction, medicine and metaphor
- Foreign bodies : vaccination, contagion and colonialism in the nineteenth century
- Moral contagion and the will : the crisis of masculinity in fin-de-siècle France
- Excremental colonialism : public health and the poetics of pollution
- Leprosy and the management of race, sexuality and nation in tropical Australia
- Sanitary failure and risk : pasteurisation, immunisation and the logics of prevention
- Vulnerable bodies and ontological contamination
- A pig's tale : porcine viruses and species boundaries
- Taking the HIV test : self-surveillance and the making of heterosexuality
- The promiscuous placenta : crossing over
- Carrier - becoming symborg