Fiona Hackett
Biographic Data
| ID | 6415395 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Hackett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Hackett |
| SIGNATURE | HACKETT F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Fragmentary Landscapes
This paper introduces 'Terra Incognita', a contemporary photographic practice located in the relationship between photography, seismology and the visual representation of landscape in Southern California. Photography and geological science have been used together since the late nineteenth century to document this region, and Terra Incognita can be situated within this visual culture of using photography in the representation of scientific knowled…
Rationalizing Epidemics
Reviewed by: Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600 Paul Hackett David S. Jones . Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xii + 294 pp. Ill. $49.95 (0-674-01305-0). Traditionally, most studies examining the past health of the aboriginal people of the Americas have focused on the spread of infectious disease or on its …
Averting Disaster
During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the Hudson's Bay Company served as a de facto public health agency across western Canada. Among its biggest challenges was combating the smallpox epidemics that periodically threatened the Aboriginal people of the region. Initially, the Company's employees turned to quarantine over variolation in order to prevent the spread of the disease to Hudson Bay in the summer of 1782. Although well …
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Averting Disaster
During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the Hudson's Bay Company served as a de facto public health agency across western Canada. Among its biggest challenges was combating the smallpox epidemics that periodically threatened the Aboriginal people of the region. Initially, the Company's employees turned to quarantine over variolation in order to prevent the spread of the disease to Hudson Bay in the summer of 1782. Although well …
Rationalizing Epidemics
Reviewed by: Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600 Paul Hackett David S. Jones . Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xii + 294 pp. Ill. $49.95 (0-674-01305-0). Traditionally, most studies examining the past health of the aboriginal people of the Americas have focused on the spread of infectious disease or on its …
Fragmentary Landscapes
This paper introduces 'Terra Incognita', a contemporary photographic practice located in the relationship between photography, seismology and the visual representation of landscape in Southern California. Photography and geological science have been used together since the late nineteenth century to document this region, and Terra Incognita can be situated within this visual culture of using photography in the representation of scientific knowled…
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