Epidemiological Realism

2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-68516-3
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 118 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 293 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

This book examines what it means to live in an epidemiological reality, exploring the worldbuilding properties of epidemiology through the lens of critical theory, literary analysis, and visual culture. Whether we want it or not, we live in a world made of statistical correlations, risk factors, and social determinants of health, animal reservoirs and spillovers, containment strategies and curves to be flattened, prophylactic measures, and syndromic surveillance systems detecting in real-time potential outbreaks. This book uses a series of vignettes to show that we have lived in a version of that reality for quite some time now, even before the formalization of epidemiological tools and concepts at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bruyere, Vincent

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

.- 1. Stinky Contexts (Abbott Pandemic Defense Coalition, 2023).

.- 2. Epidemiological Realism (, 1887).

.- 3. Facing Toxicity (New York Health Department, 2019).

.- 4. Diagnosing Exemplarity (, 2014).

.- 5. Picturing Incidence (Clara Jacobi, 1689; Stromae, 2013).

.- 6. In the Meantime (, 2017).

.- 7. Statistical Interlude (Halbwachs, 1913).

.- 8. Occupational Realism (, 2018).

.- 9. Scenes of Plotlessness (Woolf, 1926; Camus, 1946).

.- 10. Scenes of Contagion (Poussin, ca. 1630; Soderbergh, 2011).

.- 11. Scenes of Immunization (, 1947).

.- 12. The Rabid Wolf and the Sovereign (Bauhin, 1591).

.- 13. Scenes of Awkwardness (, 2019).

.- 14. The Sentinel Effect.

.- 15. Epilogue: The Sentinel Effect.

Über Autor(innen)

Vincent Bruyere is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of French and associate professor in the department of French and Italian with a faculty affiliation in the Center for the Study of Human Health at Emory University in Atlanta, USA. He is the author of  (2012),  (2018), and  (2023). In 2023–24, he was a research fellow at the Center for Apocalyptic and Post-apocalyptic Studies in Heidelberg, Germany.