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Endemic (eBook)

Essays in Contagion Theory
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2016 | 1st ed. 2016
XVII, 300 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-52141-5 (ISBN)

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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.


Kari Nixon is the Hughes Postdoctoral Fellow at Southern Methodist University, USA. Her work examines the intersection of culture, microbiology, and epidemiology. 

Lorenzo Servitje is a Doctoral Candidate in English at the University of California, Riverside, USA. His work examines the mutual constitution of literature and medicine in the Victorian era, in addition to representation of medical discourse in popular culture.

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.

Kari Nixon is the Hughes Postdoctoral Fellow at Southern Methodist University, USA. Her work examines the intersection of culture, microbiology, and epidemiology. Lorenzo Servitje is a Doctoral Candidate in English at the University of California, Riverside, USA. His work examines the mutual constitution of literature and medicine in the Victorian era, in addition to representation of medical discourse in popular culture.

The Making of a Modern Endemic: An Introduction; Lorenzo Servitje and Kari Nixon.- Part I. Contagious Culture and Cultures of Contagion.- Chapter 1. Contagion and Anarchy: Matthew Arnold and the Disease of Modern Life; Lorenzo Servitje.- Chapter 2. Dark Zones: The Ebola Body as a Configuration of Horror; Catherine Belling.- Chapter 3. Needles and Bullets: Media Theory, Medicine, and Propaganda; Ghislain Thibault.- Part II. Digital Virality. Chapter 4. Immunizing the Social Network: Public Health and the "Troubled Teenager" in Digital Media; Olivia Banner.- Chapter 5. The Writing is on the Wall: Epidemiology and the Anticipated Ends of Social Media; Kimberly Hall.- Part III. Theorizing the Politics of Contagion in a Neoliberal World.- Chapter 6. Intestine Disorder: Neoliberalism Biomial Politics; Robert Geroux.- Chapter e Shootings, Neuroscientifc Imaginaries and Neuroscientifc Futures; Stephen Casper.- Chapter 8. Infecting Humanness: A Critique of the Autonomous Self in Contagion; Yunjin Woo.- Part IV. Reconstructing Contagion.- Chapter 9. Thinking like a Virus: Contagion, Postmodernist Epistemology, and Ethics; Mathieu Donner.- Chapter 10. Figuring the Other Within: The Gendered Underpinnings of Germ Narratives; Laurel Bollinger.- Chapter 11. Dying a Natural Death: Ethics and Political Activism for Endemic Disease; Claire Hooker et al.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.9.2016
Zusatzinfo XVII, 300 p. 2 illus. in color.
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
Schlagworte Bacteria • Cultural Studies • discourse • Disease • Ebola • Media Studies • Medical Humanities • Medical Sociology • Science and Technology Studies • Semiotics • Social Media • Social Networks • Social Theory • STS • Virality • Viruses
ISBN-10 1-137-52141-4 / 1137521414
ISBN-13 978-1-137-52141-5 / 9781137521415
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