Animals and Epidemics
Interspecies Entanglements in Historical Perspective
Contributions by Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva Contributions by Delphine Berdah Contributions by Lucinda Cole Contributions by Matthias Glaubrecht Contributions by Dominik Hünniger Contributions by Axel Hüntelmann Contributions by Brett Mizelle Contributions by Timothy Newfield Contributions by Carol Rawcliffe Contributions by William Riguelle Contributions by Jules Skotnes-Brown Edited by Axel C. Hüntelmann Edited by Christian Jaser Edited by Mieke Roscher Edited by Nadir Weber Consultant editor Mark Hengerer Consultant editor Gesine Krüger Consultant editor Julia Weitbrecht Consultant editor Clemens Wischermann Consultant editor Martina Giese Consultant editor Etienne Benson
Hardback (Published)
(December 2023)
ISBN: 9783412525705
6.93 x 9.69 inches
Price: $87.00
In stock
Suspicious bats, culled mink, valuable monkeys, and vaccinated tigers: the recent global pandemic has demonstrated the close interconnectedness of animal and human lives in the modern world. The human attribution of epidemic agency to animals has a long historical tradition, as narratives about animal diseases in antiquity already attest. The contributions to this volume focus on animals as victims, hosts, or vectors of dangerous diseases – or, since the late eighteenth century, also as producers of vaccines and test bodies for new medicines. They also show how epistemic breaks such as the bacteriological turn around 1900 led to large-scale extermination campaigns against rats and other “pests”. The changing role of non-human beings in epidemics thus reflects both long continuities and fundamental shifts in relations between humans and other animals.
- Contributions by Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva
- Contributions by Delphine Berdah
- Contributions by Lucinda Cole
- Contributions by Matthias Glaubrecht
- Contributions by Dominik Hünniger
- Contributions by Axel Hüntelmann
- Contributions by Brett Mizelle
- Contributions by Timothy Newfield
- Contributions by Carol Rawcliffe
- Contributions by William Riguelle
- Contributions by Jules Skotnes-Brown
- Edited by Axel C. Hüntelmann
- Edited by Christian Jaser
- Edited by Mieke Roscher
- Edited by Nadir Weber
- Consultant editor Mark Hengerer
- Consultant editor Gesine Krüger
- Consultant editor Julia Weitbrecht
- Consultant editor Clemens Wischermann
- Consultant editor Martina Giese
- Consultant editor Etienne Benson
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