Epidemics as Events and as Crises

Comparing Two Plague Outbreaks in Manchuria (1910-11 and 1920-21)

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4380100
AutoresC Lynteris (0000-0001-8397-0050, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen32
Número1
Páginas62-76
Fecha de publicación2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0305-7674 • E-ISSN: 2047-7716
EditorialBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/ca.2014.320106
OpenAlexW2129851696
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8

This article draws on Alain Badiou's notion of the event and on Michel Foucault's critique of the notion of crisis in comparing two pneumonic plague outbreaks in Manchuria. It is argued that the two epidemics, although apparently involving the same pathogen and geographical region, cannot be treated as analogous. The article approaches the Manchurian pneumonic plague epidemic of 1910–11 as an event, and the Manchurian pneumonic plague epidemic of 1920–21 as a crisis, stressing that the crucial difference between the two lies with the way in which they produced and reproduced biopolitical subjects

Ancient history · Biology · Geography · Michel foucault · Outbreak · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Demography · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research · Virology