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Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times
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.
Visual Plague
How epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the development of modern epidemiology and our concept of the “pandemic.” In Visual Plague, Christos Lynteris examines the emergence of epidemic photography during the third plague pandemic (1894–1959), a global pandemic of bubonic plague that led to over twelve million deaths. Unlike medical photography, epidemic photography was not exclusively, or even primarily, concerned with exposing the patient’s body or medical examinations and operations. Instead, it played a key role in reconceptualizing infectious diseases by visualizing the “pandemic” as a new concept and structure of experience—one th...
Mapping AIDS
Offers an innovative study of visual traditions in modern medical history through debates about the causes, impact and spread of AIDS.
Working With Diagrams
Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work related to the social sciences. Rather than attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity might be, contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories. Across a range of disciplines, the chapters introduce the ephemeral dimensions of scientist’s interactions and collaboration with diagrams, consider how diagrams configure cooperation across disciplines, and explore how diagrams have been made to work in ways that point beyond simplification, clarification and formalization.
Scham und Schuld
"Scham"und" Schuld"--Zentrale Narrationen, in denen die Verbrechen der Shoah verhandelt werden. Ihre geschlechtliche Codierung und strategisch-diskursive Verwendung in Bezug auf nationalsozialistische Täterschaft steht im Zentrum dieses Bandes. Aus unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven fragen die Beiträger/-innen u.a.: Welche Bedeutung kommt der Verschränkung von Geschlecht und Religion bei der Auseinandersetzung mit nationalsozialistischer Schuld zu? In welchem diskursiven Geflecht stehen juristische/moralische Schuld und weibliche Täterschaft? Welche Bedeutungen haben Schamgefühle für die Weitergabe von Schuld in familiären Zusammenhängen? Mit Beiträgen u.a. von Christina von Braun, Birgit Dahlke, Klub 2 und Björn Krondorfer.
Sulphuric Utopias
How early twentieth century fumigation technologies transformed maritime quarantine practices and inspired utopian visions of disease-free global trade. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, fumigation technologies transformed global practices of maritime quarantine through chemical and engineering innovation. One of these technologies, the widely used Clayton machine, blasted sulphuric acid gas through a docked ship in an effort to eliminate pathogens, insects, and rats while leaving the cargo and the structure of the vessel unharmed, shortening its time in quarantine and minimizing the risk of importing infectious diseases. In Sulphuric Utopias, Lukas Engelmann and Christos...
