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Author : Peta Mitchell
Release : 2012-11-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 732/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Contagious Metaphor by : Peta Mitchell
Download or read book Contagious Metaphor written by Peta Mitchell. This book was released on 2012-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative interdisciplinary exploration of metaphors of contagion in language and culture.
Author : Peta Mitchell
Release : 2013-03-14
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 216/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Contagious Metaphor by : Peta Mitchell
Download or read book Contagious Metaphor written by Peta Mitchell. This book was released on 2013-03-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The metaphor of contagion pervades critical discourse across the humanities, the medical sciences, and the social sciences. It appears in such terms as 'social contagion' in psychology, 'financial contagion' in economics, 'viral marketing' in business, and even 'cultural contagion' in anthropology. In the twenty-first century, contagion, or 'thought contagion' has become a byword for creativity and a fundamental process by which knowledge and ideas are communicated and taken up, and resonates with André Siegfried's observation that 'there is a striking parallel between the spreading of germs and the spreading of ideas'. In Contagious Metaphor, Peta Mitchell offers an innovative, interdisciplinary study of the metaphor of contagion and its relationship to the workings of language. Examining both metaphors of contagion and metaphor as contagion, Contagious Metaphor suggests a framework through which the emergence and often epidemic-like reproduction of metaphor can be better understood.
Author : Gerald O'Brien
Release : 2018
Genre : Contagion (Social psychology)
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Book Rating : 226/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Contagion and the National Body by : Gerald O'Brien
Download or read book Contagion and the National Body written by Gerald O'Brien. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 8 Metaphorical Public Health Responses -- Registration and Surveillance -- Segregation, Ghettoization, and Quarantine -- "Second-Level" Penetration (Self-Isolation) -- Elimination -- Reification of the Organism Metaphor -- Notes -- References -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
Author : Gerald O'Brien
Release : 2018-04-09
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 088/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Contagion and the National Body by : Gerald O'Brien
Download or read book Contagion and the National Body written by Gerald O'Brien. This book was released on 2018-04-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the work of George Lakoff, this book provides a detailed analysis of the organism metaphor, which draws an analogy between the national or social body and a physical body. With attention to the manner in which this metaphor conceives of various sub-groups as either beneficial or detrimental to the (social) body’s overall functioning, the author examines the use of this metaphor to view marginalized sub-populations as invasive or contagious entities that need to be treated in the same way as harmful bacteria or pathogens. Analyzing the organism metaphor as it was employed in the service of social injustice through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States, Contagion and the National Body focuses on the alarm eras of the restrictive immigration period (1890–1924), the agitation against Chinese and Japanese populations on the West Coast, the eugenic period’s targeting of feeble-minded persons and other "defectives," periods of anti-Semitism, the anti-Communist movements, and various forms of racial animosity against African-Americans.
Author : Poonam Bala
Release : 2018-06-11
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 898/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Medicine and Colonial Engagements in India and Sub-Saharan Africa by : Poonam Bala
Download or read book Medicine and Colonial Engagements in India and Sub-Saharan Africa written by Poonam Bala. This book was released on 2018-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the various modalities of imperial engagements with the colonized peoples in the former British colonies of India and in sub-Saharan Africa. Articulated through race, gender and medicine, these modalities also became colonial sites of desire addressing colonial anxieties ensuing from concerted engagements. Focussing on colonial India, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, this volume brings together essays from eminent scholars to examine the dynamics of colonial engagements and their implications in understanding their role in the dominant discourses of the empire. Given its transnational perspective in addressing colonial India and Sub-Saharan Africa, the book will appeal to historians, sociologists, and anthropologists, and to scholars and students in colonial studies, cultural studies, history of medicine and world history.
