Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: contagion, modernity and postmodernity; The meaning of contagion: reproduction, medicine and metaphor; Foreign bodies: vaccination, contagion and colonialism in the nineteenth century; Moral contagion and the will: the crisis of masculinity in fin-de-sicle France; Excremental colonialism: public health and the poetics of pollution; Leprosy and the management of race, sexuality and nation in tropical Australia
Summary
Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also investigates the use of 'contagion' as a concept in postmodern research
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-231) and index
