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

Avainsanat: History, History of Science, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Medicine