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Epidemics and Pandemics : Philosophical Perspectives
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, 2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (328 p.)ISBN:- 9782503598932
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PPN: PPN: 1922675466Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Intro -- Epidemics and Pandemics: Philosophical Perspectives. What's Philosophy Got to Do with It? Naomi Zack -- Introduction. Michele Nicoletti, Alessandro Palazzo -- 1. Thucydides and the Politics of Plague. Mauro Bonazzi -- 2. Between Religion and Science. The Debate on the Concept of Contagion in the Medieval Islamic World and its Western Parallels. Marco Di Branco -- 3. Pestilences and Contagious Diseases in the Middle Ages. Albert the Great and the Fourteenth-Century Plague Treatises. Alessandro Palazzo -- 4. Latin-into-Hebrew Treatises on the Black Death. Diana Di Segni
5. Contagion and Pandemics. Plague in Early Modern Medical Thought. Concetta Pennuto -- 6. New Sciences and Old Diseases. Seventeenth-Century Readings of the Causes of the Plague. Mariangela Priarolo -- 7. Contagion and Epidemics in Twentieth-Century Thought. A Hypothesis about Bergson. Fabrizio Meroi -- 8. Zoonosis. Carlo Brentari -- 9. Fear and Dispossession. Michele Nicoletti -- 10. The Mimetic Faculty Reloaded: Contagion, Immunization, Conspiracies in the Age of Viral Reproduction. Nidesh Lawtoo -- 11. Crisis of the Subject in Mediated Communication. Ľudmila Lacková
12. The Epistemology of Models in the Era of Pandemic. Federico Laudisa -- 13. The COVID-19 Pandemic. An Exogenous Shock into Political Systems in the Middle East and North Africa? Pejman Abdolmohammadi -- Conclusion. Michele Nicoletti, Alessandro Palazzo
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