Contagious Monsters: From Humanism to Posthumanism in Fantastic Representations of Epidemics on Screen
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Publisher:Sciendo
By: Annamária Hódosy
Table of contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Looking to the Past to Plan for the Future: COVID-19 and Possible Future Pandemics
Part 1: Bioethics
Going Viral: The Media Anthropology of the Quarantine Subject in the Context of Biopolitics and Psychopolitics
Part 2: History
“Anti-Vaxxers” of New Spain? Epidemics, State Policies, and Self-Determination in Late-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala and Oaxaca
Iconography of an Illness? Picturing Smallpox in Early Modern and Modern Painting
Finding a Place for “the most unfortunate”? Madness, Institutionalization, and the Obstacles of Care in the Late-Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy
Part 3: Case Studies
A Relational Account of COVID-19 in the Philippines
Super Spreaders? A Narrative Study of COVID-19 and American College Students in the 2020-21 Academic Year
COVID-19 in Ireland: Exploring a Rather Singular Outbreak
Part 4: Media and Literature
Contagious Monsters: From Humanism to Posthumanism in Fantastic Representations of Epidemics on Screen
Spatiality and the Power of Simulation in COVIDeo Games
Epidemiological Pulp Fiction Analysis: On Robin Cook’s novel Outbreak (and Its Contexts)
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
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PDF ISBN: 978-83-68412-31-4 | E-Pub ISBN: 978-83-68412-52-9 | Paperback ISBN: 978-83-68412-30-7 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/9788368412314
Publisher: Sciendo
Copyright owner: © 2025 Eszter Ureczky, published by Sciendo
Publication date: 2026
Language: English
Pages: 220