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Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
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Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
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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.
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