Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits

This open access book explores law, politics, and inequality in fights against infectious diseases. Guided by a theoretical framework called “governing through contagion”, the studies in this book analyse how past and present governments have tried to combat contagious diseases, such as the bubonic...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1427252024-08-03T04:23:23Z Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits Chua, Lynette J Lee, Jack Jin Gary infectious diseases epidemics public health science and technology colonialism history law and society socio-legal studies thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAM Comparative law thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LND Constitutional and administrative law: general::LNDC Law: Human rights and civil liberties::LNDC1 Constitutional law and human rights This open access book explores law, politics, and inequality in fights against infectious diseases. Guided by a theoretical framework called “governing through contagion”, the studies in this book analyse how past and present governments have tried to combat contagious diseases, such as the bubonic plague, cholera, HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19. They examine how these governments used law and other technologies, including waste management, mask-wearing, quarantine stations, house inspections, and the burning of entire neighbourhoods, to achieve their aims of protecting populations and ensuring productivity. Although the studies recognise the power of the state, they simultaneously emphasise the active roles of technologies and creatures, drawing attention to the often-taken-for-granted workings of the non-human in public health governance. They also consider the implications of strategies of control on marginalised communities and democratic politics. Collectively, the studies in this book bring attention to the connections between COVID-19 responses by governments and their historical antecedents, shedding light on the role of capitalism, colonialism, and geopolitics in circulating contagions and the strategies used to control them. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. 2024-08-03T04:23:21Z 2024-08-03T04:23:21Z 2024-08-01T14:33:09Z 2024 book ONIX_20240801_9781509970711_4 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92551 9781509970711 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/142725 eng open access image/png Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92551/2/9781509970728.epub Bloomsbury Academic Hart Publishing f75587da-2374-4722-9d42-9fffa7fa3f92 9781509970711 Hart Publishing 232 London open access
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history
law and society
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Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits
title Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits
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title_short Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits
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epidemics
public health
science and technology
colonialism
history
law and society
socio-legal studies
thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAM Comparative law
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science and technology
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law and society
socio-legal studies
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thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LND Constitutional and administrative law: general::LNDC Law: Human rights and civil liberties::LNDC1 Constitutional law and human rights
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