ENGLISH

Contagionism and Contagious Diseases

By Thomas Rutten , Martina King

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2013
ISBN
3110305720, 9783110305722
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3839266 bytes)
Series
Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft/ Spectrum Literature
Pages
242\249
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-12-18 00:35:39
British Irish European Regional Cultural History C

Description

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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