SARS and the City 21st century epidemics and the anti-Modern imagination

In the cultural and spatial imagination the notion of disease as a marker of impurity has a long and evolving history. Medieval Christians, for example, interpreted strictly the injunction in Leviticus against consorting with lepers who were‘unclean’:"He shall be impure as long as the disease i...

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Main Author: Alastair Donald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: professionaldreamers 2015-06-01
Series:lo Squaderno
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Online Access:http://www.losquaderno.professionaldreamers.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/losquaderno36.pdf#page=19