LEADER 02680nam 22005655 450 001 9910254776103321 005 20230810144133.0 010 $z1-137-59684-8 010 $a9781137596857 010 $a1137596856 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-59685-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000765504 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-59685-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4719895 035 $a(Perlego)3494960 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000765504 100 $a20160730d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#|||mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEthnographic Plague $eConfiguring Disease on the Chinese-Russian Frontier /$fby Christos Lynteris 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (xix, 199 pages) $c3 illustrations 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aChallenging 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. 606 $aChina$xHistory 606 $aRussia$xHistory 606 $aEurope, Eastern$xHistory 606 $aSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aSocial history 606 $aHistory of China 606 $aRussian, Soviet, and East European History 606 $aSocial History 615 0$aChina$xHistory. 615 0$aRussia$xHistory. 615 0$aEurope, Eastern$xHistory. 615 0$aSoviet Union$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 14$aHistory of China. 615 24$aRussian, Soviet, and East European History. 615 24$aSocial History. 676 $a951 700 $aLynteris$b Christos$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0894504 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254776103321 996 $aEthnographic Plague$91998300 997 $aUNINA