Contagion

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Contagion - even today the word conjures up fear of disease and plague and has the power to terrify. The nine essays gathered here examine what pre-modern societies thought about the spread of disease and how it could be controlled: to what extent were concepts familiar to modern epidemiology present? What does the pre-modern terminology tell us about the conceptions of those times? How did medical thought relate to religious and social beliefs? The contributors reveal the complexity of ideas on these subjects, from antiquity through to the early modern world, from China to India, the Middle East, and Europe. Particular topics include attitudes to leprosy in the Old Testament and the medieval West, conceptions of smallpox etiology in China, witchcraft and sorcery as disease agents in ancient India, and the influence of classical Greek medical theory. An important conclusion is that non-medical perceptions are as crucial as medical ones in people’s beliefs about disease and the ways in which it can be combatted. Today we may not believe in the power of demons, but the idea that illness is retribution for sin retains great power, as was shown by the popular reaction to the spread of AIDS/HIV, and this is a lesson from the past that the medical profession would do well to heed.

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Genre : History
Author : Lawrence I. Conrad
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2017-07-05
File : 201 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781351949248


Charlotte Bront And Contagion

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Author : Jo Waugh
Publisher : Springer Nature
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File : 216 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783031651403


Vaccine Danger Quackery And Sin

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This book reveals the most significant medical fraud in history. The theory that you can prevent illness by injecting poisons into the bodies of healthy people is dangerous quackery and sin. All true science has proven the practice of vaccination to be ineffective and unsafe. But the medical establishment has been lured into the superstitious practice, hook, line, and sinker. It is not merely a matter of ignorance that the debilitating practice flourishes. It is, at its core, being promoted by those who know it is unsafe and ineffective. There is a malevolent spirit behind the practice. It is part of a conspiracy against God and man. While most doctors are unwitting, some are willing minions of that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, who are quite happy to kill people for profit. Jesus describes such men: "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." John 8:44.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Edward Hendrie
Publisher : Great Mountain Publishing
Release : 2023-03-07
File : 1201 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781943056170


Global Lgbtq Activism

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Focused on understanding and analyzing LGBTQ activism and protest globally, this edited collection brings together voices from different parts of the world to examine LGBTQ protests and their impact. Through the lens of media, culture, and sociopolitical structures, this collection highlights how cultural and technical factors like the emergence of social media and other digital platforms have impacted LGBTQ activism. This book draws on studies from countries as varied as Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Hungary, Morocco, China, and the US. The contributions provide important insight into how social media and digital platforms have provided space for self-expression and protest and encouraged advocacy and empowerment for LGBTQ movements. It also examines the diversity and similarities between different national contexts and the various obstacles faced, while spotlighting countries that are traditionally understudied in Western academia, in an important step toward decolonizing research. Each chapter, through the voices of activists and media scholars, moves beyond an oversimplified examination of queer protests to show, in rich detail, the exciting yet complicated terrain of queer protests throughout the globe. This book is suitable for media, communication, and cultural studies students; researchers; academics; and LGBTQ activists, as well as students and scholars from related academic disciplines.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Paromita Pain
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release : 2023-09-29
File : 419 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781000963908


Contagious

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How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergence of HIV, in scientific publications and the mainstream media? The repetition of particular characters, images, and story lines—of Patients Zero and superspreaders, hot zones and tenacious microbes—produced a formulaic narrative as they circulated through the media and were amplified in popular fiction and film. The “outbreak narrative” begins with the identification of an emerging infection, follows it through the global networks of contact and contagion, and ends with the epidemiological work that contains it. Priscilla Wald argues that we need to understand the appeal and persistence of the outbreak narrative because the stories we tell about disease emergence have consequences. As they disseminate information, they affect survival rates and contagion routes. They upset economies. They promote or mitigate the stigmatizing of individuals, groups, locales, behaviors, and lifestyles. Wald traces how changing ideas about disease emergence and social interaction coalesced in the outbreak narrative. She returns to the early years of microbiology—to the identification of microbes and “Typhoid Mary,” the first known healthy human carrier of typhoid in the United States—to highlight the intertwined production of sociological theories of group formation (“social contagion”) and medical theories of bacteriological infection at the turn of the twentieth century. Following the evolution of these ideas, Wald shows how they were affected by—or reflected in—the advent of virology, Cold War ideas about “alien” infiltration, science-fiction stories of brainwashing and body snatchers, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Contagious is a cautionary tale about how the stories we tell circumscribe our thinking about global health and human interactions as the world imagines—or refuses to imagine—the next Great Plague.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Priscilla Wald
Publisher : Duke University Press
Release : 2008-01-09
File : 392 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780822390572


The Coming Economic Armageddon

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Never before have we read such jarring headlines, distressing news analyses, or dire predictions concerning the world's financial future. The American housing market -- or, more sentimentally, the American dream -- began to collapse in 2006, taking with it large chunks of the global financial system. Millions of jobs worldwide have vanished forever. Did Bible prophecy predict this catastrophe? Are there biblical clues to how soon, if ever, a viable, long-term recovery can be sustained? Is the financial collapse just one of several signs that we are living in the final days of Earth's history. In The Coming Economic Armageddon, David Jeremiah says we can know the meaning behind what we see in the daily news -- and understand and prepare for living in the New Global Economy.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Dr. David Jeremiah
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release : 2010-10-01
File : 320 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780446576451


The Shocking Truth Of Paracetamol

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The Shocking Truth of Paracetamol gives you access to the findings of credible scientific studies published in prestigious medical journals that refute the claim that paracetamol is safe and effective. The information in this book is extremely crucial for each and every person, because this drug is widely used to suppress every episode of fever and pain. The long-term health complications associated with paracetamol are asthma, liver failure, kidney failure, debilitating chronic diseases, impaired neurodevelopment, and in extreme cases has been shown to increase the risk of autism. This book also serves as a guide to manage fever and flu without drugs to avoid future health complications. Dr. Kamalpreet Singh did extensive research on several medicines and vaccines. He studied thousands of research papers, read hundreds of books, interviewed dozens of medical doctors, and assisted hundreds of people on their disease reversal journey. After spending countless hours in dedicated research, he concluded that drugs like paracetamol (acetaminophen) are extremely harmful to health. According to certain medical journals, paracetamol is one of the most dangerous compounds in medical use, causing thousands of deaths each year due to liver failure.

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Genre : Medical
Author : Dr. Kamalpreet Singh
Publisher : Notion Press
Release : 2023-01-05
File : 110 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9798889098928


Reality Check

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(Revised and re-published) Daniel Ford has spent half his life uncovering an agenda by what he calls a global cult to enslave humanity on every level. In Daniel Ford’s first book, Paper View: In Print, a nightmare agenda of total human control and manipulation affecting every area of human life was laid-out and detailed. Ford takes the story further and deeper in Reality Check and reveals the ultimate controllers of our world and why their agenda exists at all. Reality Check is best read alongside Paper View: in Print to allow the full complex picture of humanity’s plight to be seen in its entirety. Many of the changes in society since 2020 were predicted in Paper View: In Print because once you know the global agenda and its structure and method of imposition, calling the future is very simple. “Reality Check” places current events into their true context and explains humanity’s plight with rare clarity and simplicity. The central premise of Reality Check is to question everything right down to the nature of reality itself which is detailed extensively in this blockbuster new book. Never before in human history has testing our own perceptions been more necessary, and in this extraordinary new book over 860 pages, Ford challenges the reader to reassess their perception of reality and everything they thought they knew. Only by doing so, Ford contends, do we stand a chance of living in a world of health, freedom and prosperity which, he says in an upbeat conclusion, is within our grasp if we only choose to take it. How do we claim this new world of respect for humanity? The answers are in Reality Check and you might be surprised by just how simple and achievable they are and how quickly they can be realised. In an era of cancel culture and ever-increasing censorship, Reality Check is the most explosive and controversial book of modern times, not only due to its content but also the environment into which it is published. Daniel Ford has had the courage to write it. Do you have the courage to read it? Prepare for a perception reboot that will stretch your current worldview to breaking point… The book also features 364 pages demolishing the Covid-19 hoax including 142 pages exposing the Covid-19 vaccine crime against humanity. Why do people think what they do? How do we see the world? How are we manipulated to see the world and current events? Reality Check dives deep into the human psyche to examine human perception and how to set our minds, and therefore our world, free. The book explores how human perception is formed, maintained and perpetuated and thus provides the ultimate answer to true freedom. Daniel Ford reveals the mechanisms of mass manipulation and control and thus the keys to set ourselves free. We live in extraordinary times, and face the most enormous challenge to our individual and collective freedom. We either stand up now and take back our perceptions to take back our freedom or stay silent and regret it forever with the children and grandchildren of today taking the consequences. It’s time for a Reality Check!!

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Daniel Ford
Publisher : Daniel Ford
Release : 2024-03-07
File : 890 Pages
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Sex Sexuality Law And In Justice

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Sex, Sexuality, Law, and (In)Justice covers a wide range of legal issues associated with sexuality, gender, reproduction, and identity. These are critical and sensitive issues that law enforcement and other criminal justice professionals need to understand. The book synthesizes the literature across a wide breadth of perspectives, exposing students to law, psychology, criminal justice, sociology, philosophy, history, and, where relevant, biology, to critically examine the social control of sex, gender, and sexuality across history. Specific federal and state case law and statutes are integrated throughout the book, but the text moves beyond the intersection between law and sexuality to focus just as much on social science as it does on law. This book will be useful in teaching courses in a range of disciplines—especially criminology and criminal justice, history, political science, sociology, women and gender studies, and law.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Henry F. Fradella
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2016-02-26
File : 725 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317528906


Contagion

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Over many decades, "contagion" has been a metaphor of choice for everything from global terrorism, suicide bombings, poverty, immigration, global financial crises, human rights, fast food, obesity, divorce, and homosexuality. Essays examine the language of epidemiology used in the war on terror, the repressive effects of global disease surveillance, and films and novels that enact the perplexities of contagion in a global context. Fear of microbial disaster becomes a framework for larger questions about the nature and location of sovereignty and the related questions of contact and hygienic isolation, fear and invisibility, the hazards of sociability, the security of surveillance, and what a healthy security might mean. Utilizing the cross-disciplinary approach of global studies, contagion emerges as a vexed trope for globalization itself.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Bruce Magnusson
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Release : 2012-09-01
File : 213 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780295804200