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In the era of HIV, bacteria resistant to antibiotics, Ebola virus and mad cow disease, metaphors and infection experience are a major concern of government, biomedical and folk culture. The…

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In the era of HIV, bacteria resistant to antibiotics, Ebola virus and mad cow disease, metaphors and infection experience are a major concern of government, biomedical and folk culture. The survey explores the cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Centuries. He also studies the use of "infection" as a concept in re-imagining the postmodernity of embodied self.

Articles are written from within the fields of cultural studies, biomedical history and critical sociology. Contributors examine geographical areas, policies and identities that have been produced in large-scale social efforts to contain diseases.

They explore both social responses to infectious diseases in the past, and theoretical and medical sites to study contemporary infection.



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