Contagionism and Contagious Diseases

Understanding how ‘contagion’ and ‘infection’ have become powerful metaphors requires a historical reconstruction of this semantic field in the late 19th and early 20th century, when these concepts acquired a scientific meaning. The volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to the cultural history of contagionism between medical bacteriology, the social sciences and literary adaptations. The symbolic implications of ‘contagion’ and high-profile contagious diseases are addressed, which mark the boundaries between sick and healthy, familiar and alien, morally pure and impure

Biology · Contagious disease · Disease · Geography · Pathology · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Medicine · 19th century · 20th century · Communicable diseases · Communicable diseases in literature · Contagion (Social psychology) · History · Literature and medicine · Modern Literature · Psychology · Social psychology

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