Endemic : essays in contagion theory /: essays in contagion theory. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kari Nixon, Lorenzo Servitje, editors.
• Editors: Nixon, Kari; Servitje, Lorenzo, 1918-2017
• Contents: Foreword; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; 1: The Making of€a€Modern Endemic: An€Introduction; References; Part I: Contagious Culture and Cultures of Contagion; 2: Contagion and€Anarchy: Matthew Arnold and€the€Disease of€Modern Life; The Medico-Scientific Context of€Cultural Contagion; The Anglo-Saxon Contagion and€the€Cultural Antidote; Literature as€Contagious Culture; References; 3: Dark Zones: The€Ebola Body as€a€Configuration of€Horror; The Emergence of€the€Ebola Body; A Poetics of€the€Ebola Body; The Horror; References. 4: Needles and€Bullets: Media Theory, Medicine, and€Propaganda, 1910-1940 Going Viral; Film and€Contagion: Entertainment, Education, and€Audiences; The Making of€a€Myth; Magic Bullets; Media as€Cure; References; Part II: Digital Virality; 5: Immunizing the€Social Network: Public Health and€the€"Troubled Teenager" in€Digital Media; A Brief History of€Psychiatric Epidemiology; "The Teenager in€Crisis" in€Print and€Broadcast€Media; "The Teenager in Crisis" in Social Media; Cultural and€Institutional Capital; Public Health under Big Data; References. 6: The Writing Is on€the€Wall: Epidemiology and€the€Anticipated Ends of€Social Media The Community Form; Anonymity and€Community; Infectious Recovery and€Ephemerality; References; Part III: Theorizing the Politics of Contagion in a Neoliberal World; 7: Intestine Disorder: Neoliberalism and€Biomial Politics; Scenario and€Introduction ; Theorizing the€Endemic; Decimation and€Trauma; The End of€Equilibrium; Conclusion: Humans, Animals, and€Antibiotics; References. 8: The Political Without Guarantees: Contagious Police Shootings, Neuroscientific Cultural Imaginaries, and€Neuroscientific FuturesReferences; 9: Infecting Humanness: A€Critique of€the€Autonomous Self in€Contagion; Outbreak I; Outbreak II; Outbreak III; References; Part IV: Reconstructing Contagion; 10: Thinking like a€Virus: Contagion, Postmodernist Epistemology, and€the€Ethics of€Belief; References; 11: Figuring the€Other Within: The€Gendered Underpinnings of€Germ Narratives; References; 12: Dying a€Natural Death: Ethics and€Political Activism for€Endemic Infectious Disease. The Endemic Agency of€Viruses and€Diseases Epidemic Narratives, Endemic Silence; Of Social Factors; Cause, Real and€Ethical; Endemic Paradigm: Tuberculosis; Corollaries; References; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 614.5; Social sciences; Communicable diseases -- Epidemiology; MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine; MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine; MEDICAL -- Public Health; Communicable diseases -- Epidemiology; Philosophy -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Social Science -- Disease & Health Issues; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Social Science -- Media Studies; Philosophy -- Movements -- General; Bio-ethics; Medical sociology; Sociology; Media studies; Social & political philosophy; Bioethics; Social medicine; Social media; Social sciences_xPhilosophy; Essays; Electronic books; Essays
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137521415; 1137521414; 1137521406; 9781137521408
• Related ISBNs: 1137521406; 9781137521408
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO), viewed September 12, 2016.
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