Evans, Nicholas H A
Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion
1. Introduction: The Challenge of the Epidemic Corpse
Christos Lynteris, Nicholas H. A. Evans
2. Failed Ritual? Medieval Papal Funerals and the Death of Clement VI (1352)
Joëlle Rollo-Koster
3. Fear and the Corpse: Cholera and Plague Riots Compared
Samuel Cohn
4. Bloeming-Typhoidtein: Epidemic Jingoism and the Typhoid Corpse in South Africa
Jacob Steere-Williams
5. Suspicious Corpses: Body Dumping and Plague in Colonial Hong Kong
Christos Lynteris
6. Composing and Decomposing Bodies: Visualizing Death and Disease in an Era of Global War, Pestilence, and Famine, 1913–1923
Michael Anton Budd
7. Shrouded Corpses, Walking Cadavers: The Shifting of ‘the Choleras’ in Depictions of Southeastern Captivity
Lizzie Oliver
8. The Burial Pit as Bio-historical Archive
Lukas Engelmann
9. Postscript: Epidemic History and the Ebola Present
James Fairhead
Keywords: History, History of Science, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Medicine
- Editor
- Evans, Nicholas H A
- Lynteris, Christos
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2018
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
- Page amount
- 15 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319629292
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-62928-5