Histories of post-mortem contagion : infectious corpses and contested burials /: infectious corpses and contested burials. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Christos Lynteris, Nicholas H.A. Evans.
• Editors: Lynteris, Christos; Evans, Nicholas H. A
• Contents: 1. Introduction: The Challenge of the Epidemic Corpse, Christos Lynteris & Nicholas H A Evans.- 2. Failed Ritual? Medieval Papal Funerals and the Death of Clement VI (1352), Joëlle Rollo-Koster.- 3. Fear and the Corpse: Cholera and Plague Riots Compared, Samuel Cohn.- 4.Bloeming-typhoidtein: Epidemic Jingoism and the Typhoid Corpse in South Africa, Jacob Steere-Williams.- 5. Suspicious Corpses: Body Dumping and Plague in Colonial Hong Kong, Christos Lynteris.- 6. Composing and Decomposing Bodies: Visualizing Death and Disease in an Era of Global War, Pestilence, and Famine, 1913-23, Michael Anton Budd.- 7. Shrouded Corpses, Walking Cadavers: The Shifting of 'the Choleras' in Depictions of Southeastern Captivity, div> .
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 614.49; Epidemics -- History; Public health -- History; Communicable diseases -- History; Corpse removals
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319629292
• Related ISBNs: 9783319629285
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