Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion Infectious Corpses and Contested Burials /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lynteris, Christos (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Evans, Nicholas H A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• Subjects: History.; World history.; Medicine-History.; History of Science.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; History of Medicine.

This edited volume draws historians and anthropologists together to explore the contested worlds of epidemic corpses and their disposal. Why are burials so frequently at the center of disagreement, recrimination and protest during epidemics? Why are the human corpses produced in the course of infect...