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Christos Lynteris is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of “<a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544221/visual-plague/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-vars-ga-category="outbound-link" data-vars-ga-action="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544221/visual-plague/">Visual Plague</a>” and a coauthor of “<a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262538732/sulphuric-utopias/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-vars-ga-category="outbound-link" data-vars-ga-action="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262538732/sulphuric-utopias/">Sulphuric Utopias</a>.” Open-access editions of both books are freely available for download <a href="https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5461/Visual-PlagueThe-Emergence-of-Epidemic-Photography" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and <a href="https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/4653/Sulphuric-UtopiasA-History-of-Maritime-Fumigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

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