Ethnographic Plague [electronic resource] : Configuring Disease on the Chinese-Russian Frontier / by Christos Lynteris.
Ethnographic Plague
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781137596857
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/1058
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2016.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XIX, 199 p. 3 illus. online resource.
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
China __ History.
Russia __ History.
Europe, Eastern __ History.
Soviet Union __ History.
Social history.
History of China.
Russian, Soviet, and East European History.
Social History.
Russia __ History.
Europe, Eastern __ History.
Soviet Union __ History.
Social history.
History of China.
Russian, Soviet, and East European History.
Social History.
