Crises of Care Eszter Ureczky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ureczky, Eszter, editor.

Series:

HJEAS Books

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Place of Publication:

Warsaw Berlin Sciendo, [2026]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Looking to the Past to Plan for the Future: COVID-19 and Possible Future Pandemics / Donald E. Morse

Part 1: Bioethics

Going Viral: The Media Anthropology of the Quarantine Subject in the Context of Biopolitics and Psychopolitics / Mario Z. Nemes

Part 2: History

Anti-Vaxxers of New Spain? Epidemics, State Policies, and Self-Determination in Late-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala and Oaxaca / Martin Gabriel

Iconography of an Illness? Picturing Smallpox in Early Modern and Modern Painting / Katalin Bodi

Finding a Place for the most unfortunate? Madness, Institutionalization, and the Obstacles of Care in the Late-Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy / Janka Kovacs

Part 3: Case Studies

A Relational Account of COVID-19 in the Philippines / Jacqueline Marie J. Tolentino

Super Spreaders? A Narrative Study of COVID-19 and American College Students in the 2020-21 Academic Year / Kathleen Beres Rogers, Allison J. Foley

COVID-19 in Ireland: Exploring a Rather Singular Outbreak / Philippe Brillet

Part 4: Media and Literature

Contagious Monsters: From Humanism to Posthumanism in Fantastic Representations of Epidemics on Screen / Annamaria Hodosy

Spatiality and the Power of Simulation in COVIDeo Games / Zsofia O. Reti

Epidemiological Pulp Fiction Analysis: On Robin Cooks novel Outbreak (and Its Contexts) / Peter H. Nagy

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed March 30 2026)

ISBN:

83-68412-31-5