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Expanding our understanding of contagion beyond the typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include the concept of biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about epidemics and their contagious potential for specific infections and non-infectious conditions. Together they explore how inseparable social and biological processes configure co-existing influences, which create epidemics, and in doing so stress the role of social inequality in these processes. The authors compellingly show that epidemics do not spread evenly in populations or through simple coincidental biological contagion: they are biosocially structured and selective, and happen under specific economic, political and environmental conditions. This volume illustrates that an understanding of biosocial factors is vital for ensuring effective strategies for the containment of epidemics.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures Introduction: Configuring Contagion in Biosocial epidemics Lotte Meinert and Jens Seeberg Chapter 1. Gender Configurations and Suicide in Northern Uganda Susan Whyte and Henry Oboke Chapter 2. Configuring Epidemic Suicide in Oceania Ted Lowe Chapter 3. Haunted by the Future: Autism and the Spectre of Prison – Configuring Race and Disability in the African American Community Cheryl Mattingly and Stephanie Keeney Parks Chapter 4. Configuring Affection: Family Experiences of Obesity and Social Contagion in Denmark Lone Grøn Chapter 5. Health Activists and Trauma Contagion: Cultural Epidemics and Raising Awareness of Trauma in Post-conflict, Post-tsunami Aceh Jesse Hession Grayman, Mary-Jo DelVeccio Good and Byron Good Chapter 6. Touched by Violence: Configuring Affliction after War in Northern Uganda Lars Williams and Lotte Meinert Chapter 7. ‘These Spirit Attacks are Like an Epidemic’: Spirit Possession as Affective Contagion in Niger Adeline Masquelier, Abouzeidi Maidouka Dillé and Ly Amadou H. Belko Chapter 8. Haunted by Internet Porn: Configuration of a Hidden Contagion Doug Hollan Chapter 9. Contagious Configurations: Reproductive Governance from Abortion to Zika virus in Latin America Lynn M. Morgan Chapter 10. Figures of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis. Jens Seeberg, Bijaylaxmi Rautray and Shyama Mohapatra Afterword: Epidemics and Ghosts Byron Good Index

About the Author :
Lotte Meinert is Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University. Her book publications include Biosocial Worlds: Anthropology of Health Environments beyond Determinism (UCL, 2020) edited with Jens Seeberg and Andreas Roepstorff and Time Work: Studies of Temporal Agency (Berghahn, 2020) edited with Michael Flaherty and Anne Line Dalsgård.

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“The book will be useful to medical anthropologists, public health workers, and other health care providers…Recommended.” • Choice “Challenging the notion that some diseases are non-communicable, [this book] offers an original and coherent argument for rethinking the relations between the biological and the social, but also for thinking through the communicability of conditions through the social, using concepts such as contagion and contamination, configuration and conflagration.” • Ruth Jane Prince, University of Oslo


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  • ISBN-13: 9781800733046
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 274
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  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics
  • ISBN-10: 1800733046
  • Publisher Date: 11 Feb 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
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  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: 19 Epistemologies of Healing
  • Width: 152 mm


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