Amy L. Thompson is an associate professor of biology at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. She has published several research articles on skeletal muscle development and disease, brown recluse spider bite pathology, and pedagogy, including using popular culture in the classroom. Antonio S. Thompson is a professor of history at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. He is the author of four books on World War II Axis prisoners of war in the United States, has co-edited two books on American military and diplomatic history, and has also published on zombie popular culture.

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Acknowledgments

Foreword (Wade Davis)

Introduction (Amy L. Thompson and Antonio S. Thompson)

The Rise of the Zombie in Popular Culture (James F. Thompson)

Other Apocalypses: Historical Perspectives on Mass Destruction (Nick Proctor)

Looking to the CDC and WHO for Answers (Amy L. Thompson)

A Matter of Timing: The U.S. Army Response to a Zombie Invasion (Jason W. Warren)

Neurobiology of a Zombie (Steven Schlozman)

Communications in a Zombie Apocalypse: Usage, Control and Collapse of Mass Media (Diem-My T. Bui)

Reaction of Health Care Providers to the Zombie Apocalypse (Linda W. Thompson)

Day of the Engineer: Engineering and the Zombie Apocalypse (Jeff Moehlis)

Homeland Security, FEMA and Securing the Masses Against the Zombie Horde (Jeremy Youde)

A Particularly "nasty, brutish, and short" Life: Individuals, Groups and Government in the Zombie Apocalypse (Antonio S. Thompson)

The Law and the Living Dead (Jennifer M. Lankford)

A Sociologist Responds to Zombies (David F. Steele)

The Psychology of Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse (Scott Mirabile)

"Three men, and the place is surrounded": Reel Women in the Zombie Apocalypse (LuAnne Roth and Kate Shoults)

Postmortem Ethics: Personhood at the Margins of Death (Cory Andrew Labrecque)

Zombies in the Sunshine State: An Economic and Historical Analysis of the Zombie Apocalypse (Christopher M. Esing)

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