Epidemics of infectious disease are rare following natural disasters, especially in developed countries. Observations from previous natural disasters suggest that skin, diarrheal, and respiratory infections are the most common infectious diseases in survivors. The etiologies of disease outbreaks are usually predictable, reflecting infectious diseases endemic in the affected area before the disaster. Injury and soft tissue infections are expected during the first few days after a disaster. In contrast, airborne, water-borne, and food-borne diseases are anticipated for up to one month after a disaster. A feared consequence of natural disasters is the potential exposure to dead bodies, both human and animal. No evidence exists that exposure to bodies after a disaster leads to infectious disease epidemics. To be discussed are specific epidemics that have followed earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, landslides, and drought. Preventative public health and safety measures aimed at attenuation of such epidemics will be reviewed.

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Epidemics After Natural Disasters

This article proposes a new iconology on the basis of the relations between image, medium and body. Among several issues, the discussion focuses the ways images work on bodies and media, the links between image and death, iconoclasm and the condition of traditional images before the new horizon of digital technologies. Key-words: image; body; medium; iconology Resumo: Este artigo propoe uma nova iconologia considerada a partir das relacoes entre imagem, midia e corpo. Sao discutidos, entre outros temas, os modos pelos quais as imagens operam nos corpos e nas midias, os vinculos entre a imagem e a morte, iconoclasmo e a condicao da imagem tradicional frente ao novo cenario de tecnologias digitais. Palavras-chave : imagem; corpo; midia; iconologia

Image, Medium, Body: A New Approach to Iconology

Modular Termination Proofs for Rewriting Using Dependency Pairs

Statement of Originality Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction 11 Chapter One Of Myth and Men 27 Chapter Two In the Likeness of Bacchus 62 Chapter Three Venus and a Satyr 97 Chapter Four Pan and Syrinx 141 Chapter Five Marsyas Flayed by the Order of Apollo 175 Conclusion 212 Catalogue of Images 227 Bibliography 300

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Beings of nature and reason: mythological masculinities in early 18th-century French art and visual culture

The monstrous-feminine

From antiquity through the Enlightenment, disasters were attributed to the obscure power of the stars or the vengeance of angry gods. As philosophers sought to reassess the origins of natural disasters, they also made it clear that humans shared responsibility for the damages caused by a violent universe. This far-ranging book explores the way writers, thinkers, and artists have responded to the increasingly political concept of disaster from the Enlightenment until today. Marie-Helene Huet argues that post-Enlightenment culture has been haunted by the sense of emergency that made natural catastrophes and human deeds both a collective crisis and a personal tragedy. From the plague of 1720 to the cholera of 1832, from shipwrecks to film dystopias, disasters raise questions about identity and memory, technology, control, and liability. In her analysis, Huet considers anew the mythical figures of Medusa and Apollo, theories of epidemics, earthquakes, political crises, and films such as "Blow-Up" and "Blade Runner". With its scope and precision, "The Culture of Disaster" will appeal to a wide public interested in modern culture, philosophy, and intellectual history.

The Culture of Disaster

Mourning Glory sheds light on troubled times as it shows how passion and prejudice, grief and denial all contributed to the continuing creation of a revolutionary legacy that still affects our understanding of the nature of language and history.

Marie-Hélène Huet

Papers

The Culture of Disaster

Mourning Glory: The Will of the French Revolution

Science Fiction before 1900, Imagination Discovers Technology

Living Images: Monstrosity and Representation

Rehearsing the Revolution: The Staging of Marat's Death, 1793-1797.