Contagionism and Contagious Diseases
Medicine and Literature 1880-1933
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19945544 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Thomas Rütten, Martina King (0000-0002-9575-3085) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Contagionism and Contagious Diseases (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9783110306118 |
| OpenAlex | W2477172753 |
| Open Library | OL31176384M |
| ISBN | 9783110306118 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
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
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |