Lynteris, Christos (Editor)
Evans, Nicholas H. A. (Editor)
Palgrave Macmillan
Physical Details: 230 pp.
Language: English
This edited volume draws historians and anthropologists together to explore the contested worlds of epidemic corpses and their disposal. Why are burials so frequently at the center of disagreement, recrimination and protest during epidemics? Why are the human corpses produced in the course of infectious disease outbreaks seen as dangerous, not just to the living, but also to the continued existence of society and civilization? Examining cases from the Black Death to Ebola, contributors challenge the predominant idea that a single, universal framework of contagion can explain the political, social and cultural importance and impact of the epidemic corpse.
...MoreReview Nükhet Varlık (2021) Review of "Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion: Infectious Corpses and Contested Burials". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 217-219).
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