{"product_id":"visual-plague-isbn-9780262544221","title":"Visual Plague","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the development of modern epidemiology and our concept of the “pandemic.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eVisual Plague\u003c\/i\u003e, Christos Lynteris examines the emergence of epidemic photography during the third plague pandemic (1894–1959), a global pandemic of bubonic plague that led to over twelve million deaths. Unlike medical photography, epidemic photography was not exclusively, or even primarily, concerned with exposing the patient’s body or medical examinations and operations. Instead, it played a key role in reconceptualizing infectious diseases by visualizing the “pandemic” as a new concept and structure of experience—one that frames and responds to the smallest local outbreak of an infectious disease as an event of global importance and consequence.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs the third plague pandemic struck more and more countries, the international circulation of plague photographs in the press generated an unprecedented spectacle of imminent global threat. Nothing contributed to this sense of global interconnectedness, anticipation, and fear more than photography. Exploring the impact of epidemic photography at the time of its emergence, Lynteris highlights its entanglement with colonial politics, epistemologies, and aesthetics, as well as with major shifts in epidemiological thinking and public health practice. He explores the characteristics, uses, and impact of epidemic photography and how it differs from the general corpus of medical photography. The new photography was used not simply to visualize or illustrate a pandemic, but to articulate, respond to, and unsettle key questions of epidemiology and epidemic control, as well as to foster the notion of the “pandemic,” which continues to affect our lives today.List of Figures ix\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations xiii\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xv\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e1 Plague Between Visibility and the Unseen 19\u003cbr\u003e2 Disinfecting the City 59\u003cbr\u003e3 Quarantine Frames 93\u003cbr\u003e4 The Global War Against the Rat 121\u003cbr\u003e5 Plague Masks 153\u003cbr\u003eConclusion 179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes 183\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 253\u003cbr\u003eIndex 295\"Inspiring not only for historians of medicine and biosciences photography more broadly, this book offers a deep understanding of multispecies entanglements as constitutive of epidemic visual cultures.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Of deeply satisfying methodological and historiographical richness, this book demonstrates how photographs reconceptualized epidemiological practices and imaginations. It presents a compelling historical analysis in which photographs are integral 'think-spaces' that open up innovative interpretative possibilities.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Elizabeth Edwards, Professor Emerita of Photographic History, De Montfort University Leicester\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A fantastic book. Lynteris tells an astonishing story of plague photography and, in doing so, offers clues for thinking through the images and imaginaries that attempt to hold our present pandemic moment.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Todd Meyers, Marjorie Bronfman Chair in Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University\u003c\/b\u003eChristos Lynteris is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eSulphuric Utopias\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303399510245,"sku":"NP9780262544221","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262544221.jpg?v=1767743495","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/visual-plague-isbn-9780262544221","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}