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Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary

Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary

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This book develops an examination and critique of human extinction as a result of the ‘next pandemic’ and turns attention towards the role of pandemic catastrophe in the renegotiation of what it means to be human. Nested in debates in anthropology, philosophy, social theory and global health, the book argues that fear of and fascination with the ‘next pandemic’ stem not so much from an anticipation of a biological extinction of the human species, as from an expectation of the loss of mastery over human/non-humanl relations. Christos Lynteris employs the notion of the ‘pandemic imaginary’ in order to understand the way in which pandemic-borne human extinction refashions our understanding of humanity and its place in the world. The book challenges us to think how cosmological, aesthetic, ontological and political aspects of pandemic catastrophe are intertwined. The chapters examine the vital entanglement of epidemiological studies, popular culture, modes of scientific visualisation, and pandemic preparedness campaigns. This volume will be relevant for scholars and advanced students of anthropology as well as global health, and for many others interested in catastrophe, the ‘end of the world’ and the (post)apocalyptic.

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Keywords

  • Acute Respiratory Viral Infection
  • Amoy Gardens
  • AMR
  • Animal Kingdom
  • CDC Office
  • CIA Agent
  • Civet Cat
  • Elana Gomel
  • Epidemiological Reasoning
  • Genetic Drift Event
  • Human extinction
  • MERS
  • MERS CoV
  • Military Scientific Complex
  • National Academy
  • Nonhuman Animals
  • Plague Pandemic
  • SARS Pandemic
  • States Army Medical Research Institute
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBA Social theory
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
  • thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNS Epidemiology and Medical statistics
  • thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology
  • thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSX Human biology
  • thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy
  • United States Army Medical Research
  • Wet Markets
  • Zombie Virus

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DOI: 10.4324/9780429322051

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Contributors: Christos Lynteris,
1 ebooks
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2019
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