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Plague masks : the visual emergence of anti-epidemic personal protection equipment
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dc.contributor.author | Lynteris, Christos | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-15T11:30:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-11-15T11:30:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-11-19 | |
dc.identifier | 251779921 | |
dc.identifier | e3cedbc3-0255-46cb-b4a9-7615120704d1 | |
dc.identifier | 000452046900002 | |
dc.identifier | 85056743388 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Lynteris , C 2018 , ' Plague masks : the visual emergence of anti-epidemic personal protection equipment ' , Medical Anthropology , vol. 37 , pp. 442-457 . https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2017.1423072 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0145-9740 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-8397-0050/work/60630741 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/16472 | |
dc.description | Research leading to this paper was funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant (under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme/ERC grant agreement no 336564) | en |
dc.description.abstract | Often described as “masks” face-worn devices are employed as personal protection equipment by health workers and the general public and considered to be an indispensable technology against epidemics. Simultaneously, they are potent symbols of existential risk. Could these material and visual aspects be more than simply indexically connected? In this article, I examine these apparatuses through a historical anthropological approach of their invention during the 1910–11 Manchurian plague outbreak. Arguing that they should be taken seriously as masks, I demonstrate that their emergence was rooted in their configuration as transformative agents of medical reason. | |
dc.format.extent | 2360734 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Medical Anthropology | en |
dc.subject | China | en |
dc.subject | Manchuria | en |
dc.subject | Epidemic | en |
dc.subject | Mask | en |
dc.subject | Photography | en |
dc.subject | Plague | en |
dc.subject | GN Anthropology | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | GN | en |
dc.title | Plague masks : the visual emergence of anti-epidemic personal protection equipment | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | European Research Council | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Social Anthropology | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2017.1423072 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 336564 | en |
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