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Ethnographic Plague - Configuring Disease on the Chinese-Russian Frontier (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Ethnographic Plague - Configuring Disease on the Chinese-Russian Frontier (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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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.
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