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Infection and Injustice: Narrative Dimensions in the Representation of Pandemics (Medical Humanities) - Softcover

 
9783837683684: Infection and Injustice: Narrative Dimensions in the Representation of Pandemics (Medical Humanities)
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ISBN 10: 3837683680 ISBN 13: 9783837683684
Verlag: transcript, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Infections spread, and stories are composed: The difference between the two forms of communicability ‒ transmission and representation ‒ opens a space for reflecting on what illness means. The contributors focus on the moral and social dimensions involved in narrating pandemics, analyzing how urban dwellers, vaccine sceptics, medical experts, factory workers, colonial administrators, colonial subjects, and fictional characters try to make sense of biological threats and their implications for social order, freedom, and solidarity. The figures who populate these factual and fictional stories agree on very little in terms of treatment and prevention, but they all have one thing in common: they deploy stories against the spread of disease.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Silke Schicktanz, born in 1970, is a professor for Ethical and Cultural Studies of Biomedicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany. Her research focuses on cross-cultural bioethics, stakeholder engagement, as well as collectivity and responsibility.

Andrew S. Gross is a professor of American literature at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, vice president of the German Association of American Studies, and editor-in-chief of the New American Studies Journal. He writes about American poetry and post-WWII American literature and culture.

Richard Hölzl is a researcher at Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich and teaches at the Department of Medieval and Modern History at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. His research focuses on environmental history, history of missions, and material cultures of colonialism.

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Verlag
transcript
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3837683680
ISBN 13 
9783837683684
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
330
Herausgeber
Schicktanz Silke, Gross Andrew S., Hölzl Richard
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