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The Cruel Sea
Das Leben stammt aus dem Meer. Gleichzeitig aber war die See immer auch ein gefährlicher Ort, dem viele Leben zum Opfer fielen. Stürme und Schiffbruch sind untrennbar mit der Schifffahrt verbunden und kosteten unzählige Menschen das Leben. Seekriege wurden mit äußerster Brutalität geführt. Die Arbeit an Bord der Schiffe zählte zu den gefährlichsten Berufen. Unfälle, Meutereien und Überfälle gingen einher mit Mangelernährung und fehlender Hygiene, was zu entsprechenden Krankheiten führte. Aber auch an Land war man nicht in Sicherheit vor den Gefahren des Meeres. Sturmfluten bedrohten die Bevölkerung der Küstenregionen. Und heute ist der maritime Lebensraum durch Klimawandel un...
Disguising Disease in Italian Political and Visual Culture
Although considered an isolated event, the Italian government’s initial resistant response to COVID-19 has deep historical roots. This is the first interdisciplinary book to critically examine the ongoing phenomenon of disguising contagious disease in Italy from Unification to the present. The book explores how governments, public opinion, social entities and cultural production have avoided or sublimated contagion during cholera, typhoid, syphilis, malaria, HIV and COVID-19 to impose narratives of the nation’s healthy body in Italy and its colonies. Examples range from a tuberculosis sanatorium in Capri that masked as a luxury hotel and hideaway for queer couples to an obscure but talen...
Annuaire du commerce Didot-Bottin. Etranger
Annuaire almanach du commerce, de l'industrie, de la magistrature et de l'administration
Visual Culture and Pandemic Disease Since 1750
Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding Western industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media. Images discussed range from the depiction of people and places to the invisible realms of pathogens and emotions, while topics include the messaging of disease prevention and containment in public health initiatives, the motivations of governments to ensure control, the criticism of authority in graphic satire, and the private experience of illness in the domestic realm. Essays explore biomedical conditions as well as the recurrent constructed social narratives of bias, blame, and othering regarding race, gender, and class that are frequently highlighted in visual representations. This volume offers a pictured genealogy of pandemic experience that has continuing resonance. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, history of medicine, and medical humanities.
