Endemic - Essays in Contagion Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

This book develops a new multimodal theoretical model of contagion for interdisciplinary scholars, featuring contributions from influential scholars spanning the fields of medical humanities, philosophy, political science, media studies, technoculture, literature, and bioethics. Exploring the nexus of contagion's metaphorical and material aspects, this volume contends that contagiousness in its digital, metaphorical, and biological forms is a pervasively endemic condition in our contemporary moment. The chapters explore both endemicity itself and how epidemic discourse has become endemic to processes of social construction. Designed to simultaneously prime those new to the discourse of humanistic perspectives of contagion, complicate issues of interest to seasoned scholars of science and technology studies, and add new topics for debate and inquiry in the field of bioethics, Endemic will be of wide interest for researchers and educators.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Kari Nixon • Lorenzo Servitje
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	300
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-52140-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Bio-ethics
LSN:	1-137-52140-6
Barcode:	9781137521408

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