Ethnographic Plague
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- Synopsis
- Challengingthe concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the studyof the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vitalcontributor to the configuration of plague at the turn of the nineteenthcentury. With a focus on research on the Chinese-Russian frontier, where aseries of pneumonic plague epidemics shook the Chinese, Russian and JapaneseEmpires, this book examines how native Mongols and Buryats came to beunderstood as holding a traditional knowledge of the disease. Exploring theforging and consequences of this alluring theory, this book seeks to understandmedical fascination with culture, so as to underline the limitations of theemployment of the latter as an explanatory category in the context ofinfectious disease epidemics, such as the recent SARS and Ebola outbreaks.
- Copyright:
- 2016
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781137596857
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
- Date of Addition:
- 09/20/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Medicine, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.