Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics

Expanding our understanding of contagion beyond the typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the...
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Author: Lotte Meinert
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Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics by Meinert, Lotte

Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics

CHF 276.84

Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics

CHF 276.84
Author: Lotte Meinert
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Lotte Meinert
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 02/11/2022
Pages: 274
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781800733046


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2022

About the Author

Jens Seeberg is Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University. He is the director at the Center for Biosocial Inquiries at Aarhus University and has published on a variety of subjects including inequity in health, private healthcare and medical systems in India.


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