Bibliograph

Endemic, essays in contagion theory, Kari Nixon, Lorenzo Servitje, editors

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Endemic, essays in contagion theory, Kari Nixon, Lorenzo Servitje, editors

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Endemic

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

939532021

Responsibility statement

Kari Nixon, Lorenzo Servitje, editors

Sub title

essays in contagion theory

Summary

This book develops a new multimodal theoretical model of contagion for interdisciplinary scholars, featuring contributions from influential scholars spanning the fields of medical humanities, philosophy, political science, media studies, technoculture, literature, and bioethics. Exploring the nexus of contagion's metaphorical and material aspects, this volume contends that contagiousness in its digital, metaphorical, and biological forms is a pervasively endemic condition in our contemporary moment. The chapters explore both endemicity itself and how epidemic discourse has become endemic to processes of social construction. Designed to simultaneously prime those new to the discourse of humanistic perspectives of contagion, complicate issues of interest to seasoned scholars of science and technology studies, and add new topics for debate and inquiry in the field of bioethics, Endemic will be of wide interest for researchers and educators

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