Author: Tita Chico

Cole, Lucinda, The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities

Jan 9, 2026

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Tita Chico

in General and Theory, Reviews

Lucinda Cole, The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) xii, 260 pp. £87.50 ebook £109.99 Hb. ISBN: 978-3031927928 Lucinda Cole’s The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities, published as part of the series, Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature, takes up the vexing and urgent question of how…