Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Sami Schalk traces how black women's
speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds in the context of race …

In 2005, American experts sent out urgent warnings throughout the country: a devastating flu
pandemic was fast approaching. Influenza was a serious disease, not a seasonal nuisance; …

This book develops an examination and critique of human extinction as a result of the 'next
pandemic'and turns attention towards the role of pandemic catastrophe in the renegotiation …

New Pandemics, Old Politics explores how the modern world adopted a martial script to deal
with epidemic disease threats, and how this has failed–repeatedly. Europe first declared …

How do individuals and institutions make sense of epidemics in time, before, during and
after outbreaks? This concise review follows a linear chronology of outbreak 'events' to …

This article focuses on the mobile phone's permeation into 'everyday life'through products,
knowledge and cultural processes. The convergence and blurring of industry boundaries …

During the seventeenth century, England was beset by three epidemics of the bubonic
plague, each outbreak claiming between a quarter and a third of the population of London …

This book is an account of the history and continuation of plague as a potent metaphor since
the disease ceased to be an epidemic threat in Western Europe, engaging with twentieth …

The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London examines the cultural phenomenon of the
urban crowd in the context of early modern London's population crisis. The book explores …

Dominant trends in epidemiological research and medical journalism today share a belief in
the “next pandemic,” a microbiological catastrophe of Old Testament proportions that …