Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits

Lynette J Chua & Jack Jin Gary Lee (eds)

National University of Singapore & The New School for Social Research

Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits

Edited by Lynette J Chua and Jack Jin Gary Lee

This open access book explores law, politics, and inequality in fights against infectious diseases. Guided by a theoretical framework called “governing through contagion”, the studies in this book analyse how past and present governments have tried to combat contagious diseases, such as the bubonic plague, cholera, HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19. They examine how these governments used law and other technologies, including waste management, mask-wearing, quarantine stations, house inspections, and the burning of entire neighbourhoods, to achieve their aims of protecting populations and ensuring productivity.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a  CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Lynette J Chua is Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Jack Jin Gary Lee is Assistant Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research, New York, USA.

Jul 2024   |   9781509970704   |   232pp   |   Hbk   |                        RRP: £90