01858nam a22002177a 4500 OSt 20260427223059.0 260427b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781032892498 kul 809.9335 MOH.P Mohan, Kamlesh., and Rai, Saurav Kumar. (Ed.) 14128 Pandemics and Literature: Regional and Global Perspectives New York: Routledge, 2024. xiv, 227p. This volume provides a literary-cum-historiographical analysis of epidemics and pandemics. It looks at folklore, tribal folktales, eyewitness accounts, memoirs and missionary writings from India and the west to explore the history of some of the major outbreaks in history. The chapters focus on the impact of outbreaks such as plague, cholera, malaria, tuberculosis and COVID-19, upon the material life of people, their social dislocation and their complex responses to such crises. The book studies the role of pandemics in pushing scientists, social actors and littérateurs to develop new paradigms in knowledge generation, theories of environmental dislocation and the economic slide. It examines themes such as changes in the perception of epidemic diseases across different periods of history, popular responses to state intervention during epidemics, gendering epidemics, as well as the impact of rumours during epidemics. An important contribution to the social history of health and medicine, the volume will be useful for students and researchers of cultural studies and medical anthropology, public health, literature, history of pandemics and epidemics, sociology of medicine and South Asian studies. Literature and Pandemics 14129 Plague in Literature 14130 Epidemics in Literature 14131 ddc BK 759140 759140 0 0 ddc 0 0 CAMPUS CAMPUS GEN 2026-04-27 0 809.9335 MOH.P UCL35708 2026-04-27 22:32:58 2026-04-27 BK