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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462062303321

Titolo

Contagion [[electronic resource] ] : health, fear, sovereignty / / edited by Bruce Magnusson, Zahi Zalloua

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press

Walla Walla, : In associaiton with Whitman College, c2012

ISBN

0-295-80420-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Collana

Global re-visions

Altri autori (Persone)

MagnussonBruce A

ZallouaZahi Anbra <1971->

Disciplina

363.3253

Soggetti

Bioterrorism

Bioterrorism - Health aspects

Disaster medicine

Terrorism - Prevention

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Published in association with Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington.

Papers presented at the Global Studies Symposium on Contagion held at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, on Feb. 27, 2010.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction - The Hydra of Contagion - Bruce Magnusson and Zahi Zalloua""; ""1. Rethinking the War on Terror New Approaches to Conflict Prevention and Management in the Post-9/11 World - Paul B. Stares and Mona Yacoubian""; ""2. Epidemic Intelligence Toward a Genealogy of Global Health Security - Andrew Lakoff""; ""3. The Aesthetic Emergency of the Avian Flu Affect - Geoffrey Whitehall""; ""4. Bio Terror Hybridity in the Biohorror Narrative, or What We Can Learn from Our Monsters - Priscilla Wald""

""5. Contagion, Contamination, and Don DeLillo's Post-Cold War World-System Steps toward a Haptical Theory of Culture Christian Moraru""""6. Contagion of Intellectual Traditions in Post-9/11 Novels - Alberto S. Galindo""; ""Bibliography""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Index""