Introduction: imaging and imagining plague

Christos Lynteris

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-72304-0_1

Introduction: imaging and imagining plague

Christos Lynteris

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The Introduction to this volume discusses the aesthetic, political and epistemological entanglements of plague’s image and imagination. Going beyond a visual analytical framework, the Introduction will examine how plague’s ‘image’ relates to and cosmological, anthropological, socio-political and medical framings of human society and its interaction with the non-human world. Providing a summary of the volume’s chapters as well as a broader historical and anthropological framing, the Introduction discusses the contribution of plague image and imagination in the rise of shifting epidemiological and public health frameworks and in the emergence and consolidation of the notion of the pandemic, as a pivot of modern epidemiology.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Plague image and imagination from medieval to modern times
Editors	Christos Lynteris
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	1-9
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030723040
ISBN (Print)	9783030723033, 9783030723064
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72304-0_1
Publication status	Published - 30 Jul 2021

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Name	Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history
ISSN (Print)	2947-9142
ISSN (Electronic)	2947-9150

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