Ethnographic Plague : Configuring Disease on the Chinese-Russian Frontier / / by Christos Lynteris

• Autore: Lynteris Christos
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 199 pages) : 3 illustrations
• Disciplina: 951
• Soggetto topico: China—History; Russia—History; Europe, Eastern—History; Social history; History of China; Russian, Soviet, and East European History; Social History
• Soggetto geografico: China ethnology; Siberia ethnology; Mongolia ethnology; China; China Manchuria; Manchuria
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Challenging 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ethnographic Plague
• ISBN: 1-137-59685-6; 9781137596857; 1-137-59684-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910254776103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II