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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The Challenge of the Epidemic Corpse, Christos Lynteris & Nicholas H A Evans
• 2. Failed Ritual? Medieval Papal Funerals and the Death of Clement VI (1352), Joëlle Rollo-Koster
• 3. Fear and the Corpse: Cholera and Plague Riots Compared, Samuel Cohn
• 4.Bloeming-typhoidtein: Epidemic Jingoism and the Typhoid Corpse in South Africa, Jacob Steere-Williams
• 5. Suspicious Corpses: Body Dumping and Plague in Colonial Hong Kong, Christos Lynteris
• 6. Composing and Decomposing Bodies: Visualizing Death and Disease in an Era of Global War, Pestilence, and Famine, 1913-23, Michael Anton Budd
• 7. Shrouded Corpses, Walking Cadavers: The Shifting of "the Choleras" in Depictions of Southeastern Captivity.