American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to Covid-19, Witt John Fabian
Автор: Witt John Fabian Название: American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to Covid-19 ISBN: 0300257279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300257274 Издательство: Wiley yUP Рейтинг: Цена: 15390.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A concise history of how American law has shaped-and been shaped by-the experience of contagion
Автор: Kelton Paul Название: Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs: An Indigenous Nation`s Fight Against Smallpox, 1518-1824 ISBN: 0806160985 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806160986 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20860.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: How smallpox, or Variola, caused widespread devastation during the European colonization of the Americas is a well-known story. But as historian Paul Kelton informs us, that's precisely what it is: a convenient story. In Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs Kelton challenges the ""virgin soil thesis,"" or the widely held belief that Natives' lack of immunities and their inept healers were responsible for their downfall. Eschewing the metaphors and hyperbole routinely associated with the impact of smallpox, he firmly shifts the focus to the root cause of indigenous suffering and depopulation - colonialism writ large; not disease. Kelton's account begins with the long, false dawn between 1518 and the mid-seventeenth century, when sporadic encounters with Europeans did little to bring Cherokees into the wider circulation of guns, goods, and germs that had begun to transform Native worlds. By the 1690s English-inspired slave raids had triggered a massive smallpox epidemic that struck the Cherokees for the first time. Through the eighteenth century, Cherokees repeatedly responded to real and threatened epidemics - and they did so effectively by drawing on their own medicine. Yet they also faced terribly destructive physical violence from the British during the Anglo-Cherokee War (1759-1761) and from American militias during the Revolutionary War. Having suffered much more from the scourge of war than from smallpox, the Cherokee population rebounded during the nineteenth century and, without abandoning Native medical practices and beliefs, Cherokees took part in the nascent global effort to eradicate Variola by embracing vaccination. A far more complex and nuanced history of Variola among American Indians emerges from these pages, one that privileges the lived experiences of the Cherokees over the story of their supposedly ill-equipped immune systems and counterproductive responses. Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs shows us how Europeans and their American descendants have obscured the past with the stories they left behind, and how these stories have perpetuated a simplistic understanding of colonialism.
Автор: Parikka, Jussi Название: Digital contagions ISBN: 143313232X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433132322 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 62430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Now in its second edition, Digital Contagions is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical analysis of the culture and history of the computer virus. At a time when our networks arguably feel more insecure than ever, the book provides an overview of how our fears about networks are part of a more complex story of the development of digital culture. It writes a media archaeology of computer and network accidents that are endemic to the computational media ecology. Viruses, worms, and other software objects are not seen merely from the perspective of anti-virus research or practical security concerns, but as cultural and historical expressions that traverse a non-linear field from fiction to technical media, from net art to politics of software. Mapping the anomalies of network culture from the angles of security concerns, the biopolitics of computer systems, and the aspirations for artificial life in software, this second edition also pays attention to the emergence of recent issues of cybersecurity and new forms of digital insecurity. A new preface by Sean Cubitt is also provided.
Автор: Ann Jannetta Название: The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the ‘Opening` of Japan ISBN: 0804786909 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804786904 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 25150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In Japan, as late as the mid-nineteenth century, smallpox claimed the lives of an estimated twenty percent of all children born—most of them before the age of five. When the apathetic Tokugawa shogunate failed to respond, Japanese physicians, learned in Western medicine and medical technology, became the primary disseminators of Jennerian vaccination—a new medical technology to prevent smallpox. Tracing its origins from rural England, Jannetta investigates the transmission of Jennerian vaccination to and throughout pre-Meiji Japan. Relying on Dutch, Japanese, Russian, and English sources, the book treats Japanese physicians as leading agents of social and institutional change, showing how they used traditional strategies involving scholarship, marriage, and adoption to forge new local, national, and international networks in the first half of the nineteenth century. The Vaccinators details the appalling cost of Japan's almost 300-year isolation and examines in depth a nation on the cusp of political and social upheaval.
Автор: Parks Aaron M. Название: Smallpox Outbreak: Are We Prepared? ISBN: 1249584817 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781249584810 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 71050.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Spilsbury Louise Название: The War Against Smallpox ISBN: 1427151407 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781427151407 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9150.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Kaiser Brianna Название: Smallpox: A Vaccine Success ISBN: 1728431263 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781728431260 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11490.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A barefoot Mary has danced to soaring ballet music from an old gramophone, in her back garden ever since she learned to walk. Her head is filled with dreams of someday becoming a ballerina. Even when she is old enough to go to school, she rushes home everyday and with brown paper wings pinned to her shoulders, she dances and dances until darkness falls. When, at last, a dance teacher comes to her small town, she learns to arabesque and plie and leap gracefully through the air. After a while she is chosen to perform a solo in a town hall concert. She is filled with both pride and anxiety. She needs a ballet dress. But there is a problem: it is wartime. When she visits a draper`s shop, she learns that there is no fabric suitable for making her dress. She is devastated. Can her dream of becoming a ballet dancer ever come true? And will her mother somehow find a way to make her a ballet dress?
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