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Darrera modificació: 2023-08-21
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Lynteris, Christos (ed.), Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times, Palgrave Macmillan (Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History), 2021, xix + 298 pp.
- Resum
- resents a history of plague, bringing together scholars from early modern and modern history as well as anthropologists working on plague in historical and contemporary contexts Examines the visual record of the plague and explores the relationship between the epidemic image and human imagination Integrates geographical perspectives beyond the usual Eurocentric plague frame, appealing to scholars of global history and colonialism. This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in different temporal and spatial contexts, and the imagination of the disease from the Middle Ages to today. The chapters in this book illuminate to what extent the image of plague has not simply reflected, but also impacted the way in which the disease is experienced in different historical periods. The book asks what is the contribution of the entanglement between epidemic image and imagination to the persistence of plague as a category of human suffering across so many centuries, in spite of profound shifts in our medical understanding of the disease. What is it that makes plague such a visually charismatic subject? And why is the medical, religious and lay imagination of plague so consistently determined by the visual register? In answering these questions, this volume takes the study of plague images beyond its usual, art-historical framework, so as to examine them and their relation to the imagination of plague from medical, historical, visual anthropological, and postcolonial perspectives.
Conté:
*Lynteris, Christos / Introduction: Imaging and Imagining Plague · 1-9
*Varlık, Nükhet / Why Is Black Death Black? European Gothic Imaginaries of ‘Oriental' Plague · 11-35
*Barker, Sheila / Painting the Plague, 1250–1630 · 37-67
*Carmichael, Ann G. / Pesthouse Imaginaries · 69-110
*Arnold, David / Picturing Plague: Photography, Pestilence and Cremation in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century India · 111-139
*Sarkar, Abhijit / Reflexive Gaze and Constructed Meanings: Photographs of Plague Hospitals in Colonial Bombay · 141-189
*Cohn Jr., Samuel / Plague in India: Contagion, Quarantine, and the Transmission of Scientific Knowledge · 191-203
*Meerwijk, Maurits Bastiaan / Bamboo Dwellers: Plague, Photography, and the House in Colonial Java / · 205-234
*Engelmann, Lukas / Making a Model Plague: Paper Technologies and Epidemiological Casuistry in the Early Twentieth Century · 235-266
*Sodikoff, Genese Marie -Rasolonomenjanahary, Z. R. Dieudonné / Images of the Plague: Outbreak and the Landscape of Memory in Madagascar · 267-288
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
- Notes
- de l'editor
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