Configuring Contagion : : Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics /

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

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 infectio...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (274 p.)
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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

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