Epidemics and Othering: The Biopolitics of Covid-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives - Paperbackby Heike Steinhoff (Editor) The COVID 19 pandemic has affected the lives of many people around the globe and has brought to the fore discussions about the ways in which relations of power have shaped human biology and the health of populations. Focusing on these biopolitics, this collection brings together a number of historical and cultural perspectives on processes of othering in the long transnational human history of epidemics and pandemics.