Free Download Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009098330 | 248 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
Constitutional law has helped make Americans unhealthy. Drawing from law, history, political theory, and public health research, Constitutional Contagion explores the history of public health laws, the nature of liberty and individual rights, and the forces that make a nation more or less vulnerable to contagion. In this groundbreaking work, Wendy Parmet documents how the Supreme Court departed from past practice to stymie efforts to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic and demonstrates how pre-pandemic court decisions helped to shatter social contracts, weaken democracy, and perpetuate the inequities that made the United States especially vulnerable when COVID-19 struck. Looking at judicial decisions from an earlier era, Parmet argues that the Constitution does not compel the stark individualism and disregard of public health that is evident in contemporary constitutional law decisions. Parmet shows us why, if we are to be a healthy nation, constitutional law must change.
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Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817-2020 by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
English | February 1, 2021 | ISBN: 022673921X, 022673935X | True EPUB | 392 pages | 4 MB
Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies. In Epidemic Empire, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb shows that this trope began in responses to the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and tracks its tenacious hold through 9/11 and beyond. The result is the first book-length study to approach the global War on Terror from a postcolonial literary perspective.
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Cultures of Contagion by Beatrice Delaurenti
English | October 19, 2021 | ISBN: 0262045915 | 306 pages | PDF (Converted) | 3.34 Mb
Contagion as process, metaphor, and timely interpretive tool, from antiquity to the twenty-first century.
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Carlos Rojas, "Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China"
English | 2015 | pages: 346 | ISBN: 0674743946 | PDF | 1,8 mb
The collapse of China's Qing dynasty coincided roughly with discoveries that helped revolutionize views of infectious disease. Together, these parallel developments generated a set of paradigm shifts in the understanding of society, the individual, as well as the cultural matrix that mediates between them. In Homesickness, Carlos Rojas examines an array of Chinese literary and cinematic tropes of illness, arguing that these works approach sickness not solely as a symptom of dysfunction but more importantly as a key to its potential solution.
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