Investigating the Social Representations of Contagious Diseases in the 19th and 20th Centuries: A Corpus-based Analysis of Cholera, Measles, and Plague in American Historical Texts
The current study employed corpus linguistics techniques in order to shed light on the representation of “cholera”, “measles”, and “plague” over 19th and 20th centuries in American society. To this end and also to compare the representation of the mentioned contagious diseases over time, the current...
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| Language: | English |
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Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Journal of Research on History of Medicine |
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| Online Access: | https://rhm.sums.ac.ir/article_46709_7fc1ab194d576f61940ffae72644c2b4.pdf |