LEADER 03457nam 22004933 450 001 9910978080203321 005 20250424160311.0 010 $a9782503598932 010 $a2503598935 035 $a(PPN)283219483 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31520482 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31520482 035 $a(CKB)32706441300041 035 $a(OCoLC)1446129216 035 $a(Exl-AI)31520482 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932706441300041 100 $a20240711d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEpidemics and Pandemics $ePhilosophical Perspectives 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aTurnhout, Belgium :$cBrepols Publishers,$d2024. 210 4$d©2024. 215 $a1 online resource (328 pages) 311 08$a9782503598925 311 08$a2503598927 327 $aIntro -- Epidemics and Pandemics: Philosophical Perspectives. What's Philosophy Got to Do with It? Naomi Zack -- Introduction. Michele Nicoletti, Alessandro Palazzo -- 1. Thucydides and the Politics of Plague. Mauro Bonazzi -- 2. Between Religion and Science. The Debate on the Concept of Contagion in the Medieval Islamic World and its Western Parallels. Marco Di Branco -- 3. Pestilences and Contagious Diseases in the Middle Ages. Albert the Great and the Fourteenth-Century Plague Treatises. Alessandro Palazzo -- 4. Latin-into-Hebrew Treatises on the Black Death. Diana Di Segni -- 5. Contagion and Pandemics. Plague in Early Modern Medical Thought. Concetta Pennuto -- 6. New Sciences and Old Diseases. Seventeenth-Century Readings of the Causes of the Plague. Mariangela Priarolo -- 7. Contagion and Epidemics in Twentieth-Century Thought. A Hypothesis about Bergson. Fabrizio Meroi -- 8. Zoonosis. Carlo Brentari -- 9. Fear and Dispossession. Michele Nicoletti -- 10. The Mimetic Faculty Reloaded: Contagion, Immunization, Conspiracies in the Age of Viral Reproduction. Nidesh Lawtoo -- 11. Crisis of the Subject in Mediated Communication. ?udmila Lacková -- 12. The Epistemology of Models in the Era of Pandemic. Federico Laudisa -- 13. The COVID-19 Pandemic. An Exogenous Shock into Political Systems in the Middle East and North Africa? Pejman Abdolmohammadi -- Conclusion. Michele Nicoletti, Alessandro Palazzo. 330 $aThis book, edited by Michele Nicoletti and Alessandro Palazzo, explores the philosophical dimensions of epidemics and pandemics. It examines historical and contemporary perspectives, including the politics of plague from ancient times to the COVID-19 pandemic. The book delves into philosophical inquiries about the nature of disease, contagion theories, and societal responses to pandemics. It also addresses how pandemics have been interpreted across various cultures and intellectual traditions. The work aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the philosophical implications of pandemics, making it a valuable resource for scholars in philosophy, history, and the social sciences.$7Generated by AI. 606 $aPhilosophy$7Generated by AI 606 $aPandemics$7Generated by AI 615 0$aPhilosophy 615 0$aPandemics 700 $aNicoletti$b Michele$0223105 701 $aPalazzo$b Alessandro$01249714 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910978080203321 996 $aEpidemics and Pandemics$94324400 997 $aUNINA