Configuring Contagion
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Configuring Contagion

Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics

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Configuring Contagion

Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics

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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.

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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2022
ISBN
9781805399148
Edition
1
Topic
Scienze sociali
Subtopic
Antropologia culturale e sociale

Table of contents

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