Biographical note: Martina King, Universität Bern, Schweiz; Thomas Rütten, Newcastle University, UK. Biographical note: Martina King, Universität Bern, Switzerland; Thomas Rütten, Newcastle University, UK. Understanding how 'contagion' and 'infection' have become powerful meta…
Introduction: Cinema and hygiene -- Public sphere as Petri dish; or, "Special case studies of motion picture theaters which are known or suspected to be foci of moral infection"--"Noninfected but infectible" : contagion and the boundaries of the visible -- From inner to outer sp…
The authors of this volume track the social and cultural history of epidemics in the 20th century from the Spanish flu through syphilis, AIDS, Ebola, SARS, and avian influenza. They investigate social responses to collective dangers and ideas about security, examine treatment an…
