Tag: Contagion

Free Download Christian Borch, "Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion: On Mimesis and Society"
English | 2019 | pages: 251 | ISBN: 1138490644 | PDF | 5,0 mb
Terrorist attacks seem to mimic other terrorist attacks. Mass shootings appear to mimic previous mass shootings. Financial traders seem to mimic other traders. It is not a novel observation that people often imitate others. Some might even suggest that mimesis is at the core of human interaction. However, understanding such mimesis and its broader implications is no trivial task. Imitation, Contagion, Suggestionsheds important light on the ways in which society is intimately linked to and characterized by mimetic patterns.

Free Download Jo Waugh, "Charlotte Brontë and Contagion: Myths, Memes, and the Politics of Infection "
English | ISBN: 3031651391 | 2024 | 219 pages | EPUB, PDF | 639 KB + 6 MB
This book argues for the significance of contagious disease in critical and biographical assessment of Charlotte Brontë’s work. Waugh argues that contagion, infection, and quarantining strategies are central themes in Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1849), and Villette (1853). This book establishes the ways in which Charlotte Brontë was closely engaged with the political and social contexts in which she wrote, extending this to the representation and metaphorical import of illness in Brontë’s novels. Waugh also posits that although miasmatic theories are often assumed to have been entirely in the ascendant in the late 1840s, the relationship between miasma and contagion was a complex one and contagion in fact remained a crucial way for Charlotte Brontë to represent disease itself, as well as to explore the relationships between the individual and social, political, and cultural contexts. Contagion and its metaphors are central to Charlotte Brontë’s construction of subjectivity and of the responsibilities of the individual and the group.

Free Download Israel W. Charny Institute on the Holocaus, "The Genocide Contagion: How We Commit and Confront Holocaust and Genocide "
English | ISBN: 1442254351 | 2016 | 252 pages | EPUB | 932 KB
In The Genocide Contagion, Israel W. Charny asks uncomfortable questions about what allows people to participate in genocide-either directly, through killing or other violent acts, or indirectly, by sitting passively while witnessing genocidal acts. Charny draws on both historical and current examples such as the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide, and presses readers around the world to consider how they might contribute to genocide. Given the number of people who die from genocide or suffer indirect consequences such as forced migration, Charny argues that we must all work to resist and to learn about ourselves before critical moments arise.

Free Download An End to Upside Down Medicine: Contagion, Viruses, and Vaccines-and Why Consciousness Is Needed for a New Paradigm of Health (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN7K255X | 2023 | 7 hours and 7 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 228 MB
Author: Mark Gober
Narrator: Mark Gober
In An End to Upside Down Medicine, Mark Gober dives into fundamental beliefs about health and disease. These beliefs are so fundamental, in fact, that most of us probably haven’t thought to question them. For example, do bacteria cause disease, or are they part of the body’s cleanup crew that appears at the scene of an underlying toxicity or injury? Do researchers follow the scientific method when they claim to isolate viruses and show that they cause disease in their hosts? How are studies conducted that allegedly demonstrate the transmission of germs from sick people to healthy people? How do long-term health outcomes differ between vaccinated and unvaccinated populations?

Free Download David Hopkins, "Contagion, Hygiene, and the European Avant-Garde "
English | ISBN: 1032284994 | 2023 | 204 pages | EPUB, PDF | 12 MB + 33 MB
This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explore intersections between the European avant-garde (c. 1880-1945) and themes of health and hygiene, such as illness, contagion, cleanliness, and contamination.