Murderous Contagion
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Murderous Contagion
Author | : Mary Dobson |
Publsiher | : Quercus Publishing |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2015-03-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781849166683 |
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Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have claimed more lives and caused more misery than the depredations of warfare, famine and natural disasters combined. Murderous Contagion tells the compelling and at times unbearably moving story of the devastating impact of diseases on humankind - from the Black Death of the 14th century to the Spanish flu of 1918-19 and the AIDS epidemic of the modern era. In this book Mary Dobson also relates the endeavours of physicians and scientists to understand and identify the causes of diseases and find ways of preventing them. This is a timely and revelatory work of popular history by a writer whose knowledge of, and enthusiasm for, her subject shines through her every word.
The Vocation of Writing
Author | : Marc Crépon |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2018-03-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781438469621 |
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Explores how violence structures language and the writing of literature and philosophy. Within the violence our societies must confront today exists a dimension proper to language. Anyone who has been through the educational system, for example, recognizes how language not only shapes and models us, but also imposes itself upon us. During the twentieth century, this system revealed how language can condemn one to a certain death. In The Vocation of Writing, philosopher Marc Crépon explores this dimension of language, convinced that the node of all violence pertains first to language and how we make use of it. Crépon focuses on Kafka, Levinas, Singer, and Derrida, not only because each rose against commandeering language in order to warn against the next massacres, but also because their work affirms the vocation of writing—that which makes literature and philosophy the final weapon for unmasking the violence and hatred that language bears at its heart. To affirm the vocation of writing is to turn language against itself, to defuse its murderous potentialities by opening it toward exchange, responsibility, and humanity when the latter fixes the other and the world as its goals. D. J. S. Cross is a FONDECYT Postdoctoral Fellow at the Instituto de Filosofía at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Tyler M. Williams is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Midwestern State University.
Contagion
Author | : Robin Cook |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0425155943 |
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The New York Times best-seller narrates the cautionary tale of a deadly epidemic spread not only by microbes but by sinister sabotage designed to bring down the corporate titans of health care. Reissue.
The Harbinger of Health Containing Medical Prescriptions for the Human Body and Mind
Author | : Andrew J. Davis |
Publsiher | : Health Research Books |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1996-09 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0787302562 |
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1862 Containing medical prescriptions for the human body and mind. Some of the Contents: the Pearly Gates of Science; Philosophy of Disease; No Infallible Remedies; Medical Value of Clairvoyance; Self-Healing Energies Better That Medicines; a Pneu.
The Harbinger of health
Author | : Andrew Jackson Davis |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:24503524925 |
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Tragic Ambiguity
Author | : Th.C.W. Oudemans,André Lardinois |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1987-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004246539 |
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Contagion
Author | : Joanne Dahme |
Publsiher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2011-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781459618732 |
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Rose Dugan is a young and beautiful woman living in Philadelphia in the late 19th century passionate about keeping Philadelphia's water reservoir clean and healthy. But when Rose starts receiving threatening letters, warning her to convince her husband to shut down his plans for a water filtration system or else, things take a turn for the worse. A conspicuous murder and butting heads cause Rose to search for the culprit, the truth, and a way to keep the people of Philadelphia safe from contagion in more ways than one.
Theatres of Contagion
Author | : Fintan Walsh |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-09-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781350085992 |
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To what extent is theatre a contagious practice, capable of undoing and enlivening people and cultures? Theatres of Contagion responds to some of the anxieties of our current political and cultural climate by exploring theatre's status as a contagious cultural force, questioning its role in the spread or control of medical, psychological and emotional conditions and phenomena. Observing a diverse range of practices from the early modern to contemporary period, the volume considers how this contagion is understood to happen and operate, its real and imagined effects, and how these have been a source of pleasure and fear for theatre makers, audiences and authorities. Drawing on perspectives from medicine, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, law and affect theory, essays investigate some of the ways in which theatre can be viewed as a powerful agent of containment and transmission. Among the works analysed include a musical adaptation and an intercultural variation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; a contemporary queer take on Hamlet; Grand Guignol and theatres of horror; the writings and influence of Artaud; immersive theatre and the work of Punchdrunk, and computer gaming and smartphone apps