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List of Figures
Introduction: Configuring Contagion in Biosocial epidemics
Lotte Meinert and Jens Seeberg
Chapter 1. Gender Configurations and Suicide in Northern Uganda
Susan Whyte and Henry Oboke
Chapter 2. Configuring Epidemic Suicide in Oceania
Ted Lowe
Chapter 3. Haunted by the Future: Autism and the Spectre of Prison – Configuring Race and Disability in the African American Community
Cheryl Mattingly and Stephanie Keeney Parks
Chapter 4. Configuring Affection: Family Experiences of Obesity and Social Contagion in Denmark
Lone Grøn
Chapter 5. Health Activists and Trauma Contagion: Cultural Epidemics and Raising Awareness of Trauma in Post-conflict, Post-tsunami Aceh
Jesse Hession Grayman, Mary-Jo DelVeccio Good and Byron Good
Chapter 6. Touched by Violence: Configuring Affliction after War in Northern Uganda
Lars Williams and Lotte Meinert
Chapter 7. ‘These Spirit Attacks are Like an Epidemic’: Spirit Possession as Affective Contagion in Niger
Adeline Masquelier, Abouzeidi Maidouka Dillé and Ly Amadou H. Belko
Chapter 8. Haunted by Internet Porn: Configuration of a Hidden Contagion
Doug Hollan
Chapter 9. Contagious Configurations: Reproductive Governance from Abortion to Zika virus in Latin America
Lynn M. Morgan
Chapter 10. Figures of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis.
Jens Seeberg, Bijaylaxmi Rautray and Shyama Mohapatra
Afterword: Epidemics and Ghosts
Byron Good
Index
Configuring Contagion
Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics
Edited by Lotte Meinert and Jens Seeberg
Afterword by Byron Good
274 pages, 5 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80073-304-6 Hb Published (February 2022)
eISBN 978-1-80073-305-3 eBook