Ethnographic Plague

Configuring Disease on the Chinese-Russian Frontier

AvChristos Lynteris

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-08-11
Mått:148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt:403 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:199
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137596840

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Christos Lynteris is a social anthropologist working on biopolitical and visual aspects of infectious disease epidemics. He is Senior Research Associate at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, UK, and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council funded project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic. He is also the author of The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China (2012).

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Plague Beyond the Laboratory. - 1. The Native Knowledge Hypothesis. - 2. Medical Myths and Mythic Medicine. - 3. Ethno-Geographic Entanglements. - 4. Anthropological Types and Clustered Hypotheses. - Conclusion: Ethnographic Data as Medical Evidence.