Contagion
Health, Fear, Sovereignty
Over many decades, contagion has been a metaphor of choice for everything from global terrorism, suicide bombings, poverty, immigration, global financial crises, human rights, fast food, obesity, divorce, and homosexuality. Essays examine the language of epidemiology used in the war on terror, the repressive effects of global disease surveillance, and films and novels that enact the perplexities of contagion in a global context. Fear of microbial disaster becomes a framework for larger questions about the nature and location of sovereignty and the related questions of contact and hygienic isolation, fear and invisibility, the hazards of socia…
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Weitere Autoren: Zalloua, Zahi (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-295-80420-0
- EAN: 9780295804200
- Produktnummer: 20514065
- Verlag: University of Washington Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'037 KB
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Edited by Bruce Magnusson and Zahi Zalloua
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