Transforming Contagion : : Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations / / ed. by Breanne Fahs, Sarah Stage, Eric Swank, Annika Mann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• TeilnehmendeR: Bracken, Rachel Conrad.; Cohn, Edward.; Dahiya, Annu.; Gohr, Michelle Ashley.; Maley, Patrick.; Mann, Annika.; Mendoza, Louis.; Mohler, Sadie.; Nadesan, Majia.; Rogers-Cooper, Justin.; Tromp, Marlene.; Wharram, C.C.
• MitwirkendeR: Cohn, Edward,; Conrad Bracken, Rachel,; Dahiya, Annu,; Fahs, Breanne,; Gohr, Michelle Ashley,; Maley, Patrick,; Mann, Annika,; Mendoza, Louis,; Mohler, Sadie,; Nadesan, Majia,; Rogers-Cooper, Justin,; Stage, Sarah,; Swank, Eric,; Tromp, Marlene,; Wharram, C. C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Fahs, Breanne,; Mann, Annika,; Stage, Sarah,; Swank, Eric,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 p.) :; 14 b-w figures

Moving from viruses, vaccines, and copycat murder to gay panics, xenophobia, and psychopaths, Transforming Contagion energetically fuses critical humanities and social science perspectives into a boundary-smashing interdisciplinary collection on contagion. The contributors provocatively suggest cont...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: Contagion as Unruly Subject
• Part I. Quarantine/Exposure
• 1. “A Proper Contagion” The Inoculation Narrative and the Immunological Turn
• 2. Before the Cell, There Was Virus Rethinking the Concept of Parasite and Contagion through Contemporary Research in Evolutionary Virology
• 3. Social (Ir)Responsibility Vaccine Exemption and the Ethics of Immunity
• 4. Radiophobia and the Politics of Social Contagion
• Part II. Flesh/Spirit
• 5 Isn’t Contagion Just a Metaphor? Reading Contagion in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year
• 6. Contagious Accumulation and Racial Capitalism in Late Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
• 7. Performance and the Contagious Swirl of Dramatic Tradition. Performative Revision and Subversion
• Part III. Madness/Reason
• 8. Viral Murder Contagious Killings and Epidemic Beliefs
• 9. Am I a Psychopath?
• 10. Cult of the Penis. Male Fragility and Phallic Frenzy
• Part IV. Revolution/Bureaucracy
• 11. Fear of the Diseased Immigrant. Contagion, Xenophobia, and Belonging
• 12. Prophylactic Policing and the Epidemiology of Dissent in the
• 13. Sexual Politics and Contagious Social Movements
• 14. Words on Fire Radical Pedagogies of the Feminist Manifesto
• Acknowledgments
• Notes on Contributors
• Index