Epidemic Corpses: Between Biopolitics and Dignity

This publication offers a profound analysis of the status of the human body in the face of epidemics. The authors reject biomedical reductionism, approaching plague as a cultural and political phenomenon that raises fundamental questions about the ethics of burial and the limits of state power. The book explores how the dead body becomes a liminal object, subject to technologies of truth production and sanitary regimes. Through the lens of biopolitics, the text examines the tension between the necessity of crisis management and the preservation of the dignity of dying. This is a crucial contribution to the discussion of collective memory and how societies cope with the trauma of mass death, offering readers tools for understanding the mechanisms of power that emerge in liminal situations.