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Author : Amir A. Afkhami
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421427225
Remedying an important deficit in the historiography of medicine, public health, and the Middle East, A Modern Contagion increases our understanding of ongoing sociopolitical challenges in Iran and the rest of the Islamic world.
Author : Adam Kucharski
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781782834304
An Observer Book of the Year A Times Science Book of the Year A New Statesman Book of the Year A Financial Times Science Book of the Year 'Astonishingly bold' Daily Mail 'It is hard to imagine a more timely book ... much of the modern world will make more sense having read it.' The Times We live in a world that's more interconnected than ever before. Our lives are shaped by outbreaks - of disease, of misinformation, even of violence - that appear, spread and fade away with bewildering speed. To understand them, we need to learn the hidden laws that govern them. From 'superspreaders' who might spark a pandemic or bring down a financial system to the social dynamics that make loneliness catch on, The Rules of Contagion offers compelling insights into human behaviour and explains how we can get better at predicting what happens next. Along the way, Adam Kucharski explores how innovations spread through friendship networks, what links computer viruses with folk stories - and why the most useful predictions aren't necessarily the ones that come true. Now revised and updated with content on Covid-19.
Author : Claire L. Carlin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230522619
The ideological underpinnings of early modern theories of contagion are dissected in this volume by an integrated team of literary scholars, cultural historians, historians of medicine and art historians. Even today, the spread of disease inspires moralizing discourse and the ostracism of groups thought responsible for contagion; the fear of illness and the desire to make sense of it are demonstrated in the current preoccupation with HIV, SARS, 'mad cow' disease, West Nile virus and avian flu, to cite but a few contemporary examples. Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe explores the nature of understanding when humanity is faced with threats to its well-being, if not to its very survival.
Author : Lawrence I. Conrad,Dominik Wujastyk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351949248
Contagion - even today the word conjures up fear of disease and plague and has the power to terrify. The nine essays gathered here examine what pre-modern societies thought about the spread of disease and how it could be controlled: to what extent were concepts familiar to modern epidemiology present? What does the pre-modern terminology tell us about the conceptions of those times? How did medical thought relate to religious and social beliefs? The contributors reveal the complexity of ideas on these subjects, from antiquity through to the early modern world, from China to India, the Middle East, and Europe. Particular topics include attitudes to leprosy in the Old Testament and the medieval West, conceptions of smallpox etiology in China, witchcraft and sorcery as disease agents in ancient India, and the influence of classical Greek medical theory. An important conclusion is that non-medical perceptions are as crucial as medical ones in people’s beliefs about disease and the ways in which it can be combatted. Today we may not believe in the power of demons, but the idea that illness is retribution for sin retains great power, as was shown by the popular reaction to the spread of AIDS/HIV, and this is a lesson from the past that the medical profession would do well to heed.
Author : Justin K. Stearns
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421401058
Infectious Ideas is a comparative analysis of how Muslim and Christian scholars explained the transmission of disease in the premodern Mediterranean world. How did religious communities respond to and make sense of epidemic disease? To answer this, historian Justin K. Stearns looks at how Muslim and Christian communities conceived of contagion, focusing especially on the Iberian Peninsula in the aftermath of the Black Death. What Stearns discovers calls into question recent scholarship on Muslim and Christian reactions to the plague and leprosy. Stearns shows that rather than universally reject the concept of contagion, as most scholars have affirmed, Muslim scholars engaged in creative and rational attempts to understand it. He explores how Christian scholars used the metaphor of contagion to define proper and safe interactions with heretics, Jews, and Muslims, and how contagion itself denoted phenomena as distinct as the evil eye and the effects of corrupted air. Stearns argues that at the heart of the work of both Muslims and Christians, although their approaches differed, was a desire to protect the physical and spiritual health of their respective communities. Based on Stearns's analysis of Muslim and Christian legal, theological, historical, and medical texts in Arabic, Medieval Castilian, and Latin, Infectious Ideas is the first book to offer a comparative discussion of concepts of contagion in the premodern Mediterranean world.
Author : Alison Bashford,Claire Hooker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134540655
Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also investigates the use of 'contagion' as a concept in postmodern research.
Author : Mark Harrison
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780300123579
Looks at the connection between trade and disease, tracing the plagues that swept through Eurasia in the fourteenth century and exposes the weaknesses in the current public health system that make our world susceptible to a pandemic.
Author : Carlos Rojas
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674286979
Carlos Rojas focuses on the trope of “homesickness” in China—discomfort caused not by a longing for home but by excessive proximity to it. This inverse homesickness marks a process of movement away from the home, conceived of as spaces associated with the nation, family, and individual body, and gives rise to the possibility of long-term health.
Author : Priscilla Wald
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822341530
DIVShows how narratives of contagion structure communities of belonging and how the lessons of these narratives are incorporated into sociological theories of cultural transmission and community formation./div
Author : Sara Polak
Publisher : Horror Studies
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1786836904
Author : Nükhet Varlik
Publisher : Black Sea World
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Communicable diseases
ISBN : 1942401159
The first comprehensive volume of articles on plague and other diseases that afflicted humans and animals in the Ottoman Empire--from the Black Death to the fall of the empire.
Author : Adam Kucharski
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781541674332
One of the Best Books of 2020 — Financial Times One of the "Most 2020 Books of 2020" — Washington Post One of the Best Science Books of 2020 — The Times of London One of the Best Science Books of 2020 — The Guardian From ideas and infections to financial crises and fake news, an "utterly timely" look at why the science of outbreaks is the science of modern life These days, whenever anything spreads, whether it's a YouTube fad or a political rumor, we say it went viral. But how does virality actually work? In The Rules of Contagion, epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explores topics including gun violence, online manipulation, and, of course, outbreaks of disease to show how much we get wrong about contagion, and how astonishing the real science is. Why did the president retweet a Mussolini quote as his own? Why do financial bubbles take off so quickly? Why are disinformation campaigns so effective? And what makes the emergence of new illnesses -- such as MERS, SARS, or the coronavirus disease COVID-19 -- so challenging? By uncovering the crucial factors driving outbreaks, we can see how things really spread -- and what we can do about it. Whether you are an author seeking an audience, a defender of truth, or simply someone interested in human social behavior, The Rules of Contagion is an essential guide to modern life.
Author : Andrew Robert Aisenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804733953
Contagion was a persistent theme in discussions about urban and industrial social problems in nineteenth-century France. From the cholera epidemic of 1832 to the Public Health Law of 1902, contagious disease was associated with poverty by scientists, government administrators, and politicians. They debated the moral, economic, and social causes of disease and sought new and innovative justifications and techniques for regulating the factors associated with disease. In so doing, French scientific and government elites transformed the efforts to explain and prevent contagion into a new way of thinking about social problems in general. Drawing on the approaches of intellectual and social history and the work of Michel Foucault, the author investigates the intersection of scientific, political, and professional interests that informed perceptions and understandings of contagion in nineteenth-century France. By charting the development of the modern notion of contagion in France—from the highest echelons of scientific research in the Academy of Medicine to the activities of government authorities to the work of neighborhood hygiene commissions in Paris—the author reveals how the preoccupation with disease was mediated by an attempt to expand the possibilities of government intervention into urban and industrial life, especially life among the working poor. All in all, the book not only offers a more nuanced explanation of how scientific knowledge about disease was produced but also reveals the emergence of science as a form of state social power that significantly extended the scope of government in Republican France.
Author : Monica Catherine O'Brien
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 3031469240
This book traces how city councils, medical practitioners and urban society developed their understandings of and responses to the ‘French pox,’ a pandemic that swept through Europe during the winter of 1494-1495, and is now more commonly known as syphilis. Focusing on the disease in Frankfurt am Main and Nuremberg, two major cities in early modern Germany (1495-1700), and using a range of primary sources, including government records, medical publications, and writings of the sick, the author argues that the city councils’ responses to the disease, the orders that they issued to control its spread and their provision of poor relief, were driven by three key factors: contagion, practicality (considerations on finances and resources), and morality. Their understandings of these elements led to a response that prioritised the provision of aid to support the sick as a way to control the disease, protect the economy and population, and satisfy moral beliefs. Moreover, the book demonstrates the significant and enduring influence of non-sexual contagion theories - the belief that the French pox spread through mechanisms like shared clothing, cutlery, and money - in law, medical thinking, and the self-portrayals of the sick. Making an important contribution to our understanding of early modern contagion theories and their role in municipal authorities’ responses to disease, this timely book will provide new insights for early modern historians researching the social history of medicine and welfare.
Author : Katherine Maclean
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9356010544
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