Configuring Contagion : : Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics / / ed. by Lotte Meinert, Jens Seeberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Belko, Ly Amadou H.,; DelVecchio Good, Mary-Jo,; Good, Byron J.,; Grøn, Lone,; Hession Grayman, Jesse,; Hollan, Douglas,; Keeney Parks, Stephanie,; Lowe, Edward,; Maidouka Dillé, Abouzeidi,; Masquelier, Adeline,; Mattingly, Cheryl,; Meinert, Lotte,; Mohapatra, Shyama,; Morgan, Lynn M.,; Oboke, Henry,; Rautaray, Bijayalaxmi,; Reynolds Whyte, Susan,; Seeberg, Jens,; Williams, Lars,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Epistemologies of Healing ; 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Introduction. Configuring Contagion in Biosocial Epidemics -- Chapter 1 Gender Configurations and Suicide in Northern Uganda -- Chapter 2 Configuring Epidemic Suicide in Oceania -- Chapter 3 Haunted by the Future Autism and the Spectre of Prison – Configuring Race and Disability in the African American Community -- Chapter 4 Configuring Affection Family Experiences of Obesity and Social Contagion in Denmark -- Chapter 5 Health Activists and Trauma Contagion Cultural Epidemics and Raising Awareness of Trauma in Post-conflict, Post-tsunami Aceh -- Chapter 6 Touched by Violence Configuring Affliction after War in Northern Uganda -- Chapter 7 ‘These Spirit Attacks Are Like an Epidemic’ Spirit Possession as Affective Contagion in Niger -- Chapter 8 Haunted by Internet Porn Configuration of a Hidden Contagion -- Chapter 9 Contagious Configurations Reproductive Governance from Abortion to Zika Virus in Latin America -- Chapter 10 Figures of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis -- Afterword. Epidemics and Ghosts -- Index