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Visual Plague
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Author : Christos Lynteris
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2022-10-25
Visual Plague written by Christos Lynteris and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-25 with Medical categories.
How epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the development of modern epidemiology and our concept of the “pandemic.” In Visual Plague, Christos Lynteris examines the emergence of epidemic photography during the third plague pandemic (1894–1959), a global pandemic of bubonic plague that led to over twelve million deaths. Unlike medical photography, epidemic photography was not exclusively, or even primarily, concerned with exposing the patient’s body or medical examinations and operations. Instead, it played a key role in reconceptualizing infectious diseases by visualizing the “pandemic” as a new concept and structure of experience—one that frames and responds to the smallest local outbreak of an infectious disease as an event of global importance and consequence. As the third plague pandemic struck more and more countries, the international circulation of plague photographs in the press generated an unprecedented spectacle of imminent global threat. Nothing contributed to this sense of global interconnectedness, anticipation, and fear more than photography. Exploring the impact of epidemic photography at the time of its emergence, Lynteris highlights its entanglement with colonial politics, epistemologies, and aesthetics, as well as with major shifts in epidemiological thinking and public health practice. He explores the characteristics, uses, and impact of epidemic photography and how it differs from the general corpus of medical photography. The new photography was used not simply to visualize or illustrate a pandemic, but to articulate, respond to, and unsettle key questions of epidemiology and epidemic control, as well as to foster the notion of the “pandemic,” which continues to affect our lives today.
Plague Image And Imagination From Medieval To Modern Times
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Author : Christos Lynteris
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-07-29
Plague Image And Imagination From Medieval To Modern Times written by Christos Lynteris and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-29 with Science categories.
This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in different temporal and spatial contexts, and the imagination of the disease from the Middle Ages to today. The chapters in this book illuminate to what extent the image of plague has not simply reflected, but also impacted the way in which the disease is experienced in different historical periods. The book asks what is the contribution of the entanglement between epidemic image and imagination to the persistence of plague as a category of human suffering across so many centuries, in spite of profound shifts in our medical understanding of the disease. What is it that makes plague such a visually charismatic subject? And why is the medical, religious and lay imagination of plague so consistently determined by the visual register? In answering these questions, this volume takes the study of plague images beyond its usual, art-historical framework, so as to examine them and their relation to the imagination of plague from medical, historical, visual anthropological, and postcolonial perspectives.
Ethnographic Plague
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Author : Christos Lynteris
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-30
Ethnographic Plague written by Christos Lynteris and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-30 with History categories.
Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to the configuration of plague at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a focus on research on the Chinese-Russian frontier, where a series of pneumonic plague epidemics shook the Chinese, Russian and Japanese Empires, this book examines how native Mongols and Buryats came to be understood as holding a traditional knowledge of the disease. Exploring the forging and consequences of this alluring theory, this book seeks to understand medical fascination with culture, so as to underline the limitations of the employment of the latter as an explanatory category in the context of infectious disease epidemics, such as the recent SARS and Ebola outbreaks.
Visual Culture And Pandemic Disease Since 1750
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Author : Marsha Morton
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-07-06
Visual Culture And Pandemic Disease Since 1750 written by Marsha Morton and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-06 with Art categories.
Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding Western industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media. Images discussed range from the depiction of people and places to the invisible realms of pathogens and emotions, while topics include the messaging of disease prevention and containment in public health initiatives, the motivations of governments to ensure control, the criticism of authority in graphic satire, and the private experience of illness in the domestic realm. Essays explore biomedical conditions as well as the recurrent constructed social narratives of bias, blame, and othering regarding race, gender, and class that are frequently highlighted in visual representations. This volume offers a pictured genealogy of pandemic experience that has continuing resonance. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, history of medicine, and medical humanities.
The Heart Of A Plague Tale
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Author : Benoit Reinier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-12-15
The Heart Of A Plague Tale written by Benoit Reinier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-15 with categories.
Serving as a combination of art book and making-of book, the works in the Heart of collection each take a deep dive, using details and images, into a particular video game, its design, its universe, and its gameplay mechanics, backed by never-before-released information and comments from the game's development team. A Plague Tale: Innocence was a landmark creation in Asobo Studio's history, giving players around the world a glimpse of the expertise and personality of the team from Bordeaux. They took a risk by creating a game set in medieval France with high ambitions in terms of the narrative and esthetics--and it paid off. Developing the sequel, A Plague Tale: Requiem, set Asobo against new creative and technical challenges, but their objective remained unchanged: using video game tools to tell a poignant, cruel, and memorable story. A human story. DISCOVER THE HEART OF THE TWO A PLAGUE TALE INSTALLMENTS.
Plague And The City
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Author : Lukas Engelmann
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-11-16
Plague And The City written by Lukas Engelmann and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-16 with History categories.
Plague and the City uncovers discourses of plague and anti-plague measures in the city during the medieval, early modern and modern periods, and explores the connection between plague and urban environments including attempts by professional bodies to prevent or limit the outbreak of epidemic disease. Bringing together leading scholars of plague working across different historical periods, this book provides an inter-disciplinary study of plague in the city across time and space. The chapters cover a wide range of periods, geographical locations and disciplinary approaches but all seek to answer significant questions, including whether common motives can be identified, and how far knowledge about plague was based on an understanding of the urban space. It also examines how maps and photographs contribute to understanding plague in the city through exploring the ways in which the relationship between plague and the urban environment has been visualised, from the poisoned darts of plague winging their way towards their victims in the votive pictures from the Renaissance, to the mapping of the spread of disease in late nineteenth-century Bombay and photographing Honolulu’s great plague fire in 1900. Containing a series of studies that illuminate plague’s urban connection as a key social and political concern throughout history, Plague and the City is ideal for students of early modern history, and of the early modern city and plague more specifically.
Plague In The Early Modern World
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Author : Dean Phillip Bell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-01-08
Plague In The Early Modern World written by Dean Phillip Bell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-08 with History categories.
Plague in the Early Modern World presents a broad range of primary source materials from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China, India, and North America that explore the nature and impact of plague and disease in the early modern world. During the early modern period frequent and recurring outbreaks of plague and other epidemics around the world helped to define local identities and they simultaneously forged and subverted social structures, recalibrated demographic patterns, dictated political agendas, and drew upon and tested religious and scientific worldviews. By gathering texts from diverse and often obscure publications and from areas of the globe not commonly studied, Plague in the Early Modern World provides new information and a unique platform for exploring early modern world history from local and global perspectives and examining how early modern people understood and responded to plague at times of distress and normalcy. Including source materials such as memoirs and autobiographies, letters, histories, and literature, as well as demographic statistics, legislation, medical treatises and popular remedies, religious writings, material culture, and the visual arts, the volume will be of great use to students and general readers interested in early modern history and the history of disease.
Images Of Plague And Pestilence
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Author : Christine M. Boeckl
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2000-11-24
Images Of Plague And Pestilence written by Christine M. Boeckl and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-24 with Art categories.
Since the late fourteenth century, European artists created an extensive body of images, in paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and other media, about the horrors of disease and death, as well as hope and salvation. This interdisciplinary study on disease in metaphysical context is the first general overview of plague art written from an art-historical standpoint. The book selects masterpieces created by Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, and includes minor works dating from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries. It highlights the most important innovative artistic works that originated during the Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation. This study of the changing iconographic patterns and their iconological interpretations opens a window to the past.
The Plague Years
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Author : Michael Titlestad
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-08-15
The Plague Years written by Michael Titlestad and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-15 with Fiction categories.
The Plague Years collects scholarly and essayistic reflections on literary, visual, and sonic representations of the COVID-19 and other pandemics. These are placed alongside poetry and short fiction written in the first two years of quarantine or isolation. This range expresses the intellectual and imaginative struggle and ingenuity entailed in coming to terms with the rampant spread of disease and its emotional, cultural, and political consequences. The contributions are from diverse contexts: Africa (from Egypt to South Africa), China, Japan, the US, and Scandinavia. They consider some of the array of contemporary engagements: poems translated from Mandarin about the traumas of the frontline, Chinese calligraphic poetry printed on cartons of PPE, comments on the literary history of representing epidemics and pandemics, political analyses of the post-truth present, and the role of life-writing and gaming in an interrupted world. Given the generative and creative obliquity of many of its parts, this collection shifts how one thinks about the diseased present and the archival pasts on which it draws. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of English Studies in Africa.
Mapping Aids
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Author : Lukas Engelmann
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-08
Mapping Aids written by Lukas Engelmann and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-08 with History categories.
Offers an innovative study of visual traditions in modern medical history through debates about the causes, impact and spread of AIDS.