Description: Introduction Contagion, Modernity and Postmodernity Contagion and Cultural Histories of the Modern World 1. The Meaning of Contagion: Reproduction, Medicine and Metaphore 2. Foreign Bodies: Vaccination, Contagion and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century 3. Moral Contagion and the Will: The Crisis of Masculinity in Fin-de-Sicle France 4. Excremental Colonialism: Public Health and the Poetics of Pollution 5. Leprosy and the Management of Race, Sexuality and Nation in Tropical Australia 6. Sanitary Failure and Risk: Pasteurisation, Immunisation and the Logics of Prevention Contaminating Capacities in Postmodernity 7. Vulnerable Bodies and Ontological Contamination 8. A Pig's Tale: Porcine Viruses and Species Boundaries 9. Taking the HIV Test: Self-Surveillance and the Making of Heterosexuality 10. The Promiscuous Placenta: Crossing Over 11. Carrier - Becoming Symborg

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