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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