ENGL 2609H Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Plague Inc., Infection, Secondary Source
26 Mar 2019
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Final essay: worth: 35, due: april 14th (by midnight, length: approx. 2000 words: engage with at least one secondary source (supplied on blackboard, creative option for #11, option to develop your own topic in consultation with your seminar leader. Limits of the outbreak narrative: hamilton and scott: we suggest that increasingly the reassuring power of the outbreak narrative is fraying around its edges; the terms of our experience of and with disease are changing. Universal" disease prevention strategies such as vaccinations are questioned; reports of previously eradicated" infectious dis- eases such as polio and tuberculosis regularly pepper our news media. Threat of pandemic has become the new normal". Not surprisingly then, we are beginning to imagine global disease spread that cannot be or is not contained by medical science. Pandemic culture: as a means of making sense of this context, a recognizable pandemic narrative is increasingly shaping our discourse of communicable disease.
