Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1805397273 ISBN 13: 9781805397274

Casa editrice: Berghahn Books, 2024

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull'autore

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.

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Berghahn Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1805397273
• ISBN 13: 9781805397274
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 274
• Redattore: Meinert Lotte, Seeberg Jens
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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