Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics

 
9781800733046: Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics
ISBN 10 : 1800733046 ISBN 13 : 9781800733046
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2022

Synopsis

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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À propos des auteurs

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.



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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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1800733046
ISBN 13 
9781800733046
Reliure
Belle reliure
Nombre de pages
274
Éditeur
Meinert Lotte, Seeberg Jens
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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