Configuring Contagion
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“The book will be useful to medical anthropologists, public health workers, and other health care providers…Recommended.” • Choice
“Challenging the notion that some diseases are non-communicable, [this book] offers an original and coherent argument for rethinking the relations between the biological and the social, but also for thinking through the communicability of conditions through the social, using concepts such as contagion and contamination, configuration and conflagration.” • Ruth Jane Prince, University of Oslo
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Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about the epidemic and contagious potential of specific infections and non-infectious conditions. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Berghahn Books
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 274
- ISBN
- 9781800733046
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
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“The book will be useful to medical anthropologists, public health workers, and other health care providers…Recommended.” • Choice
“Challenging the notion that some diseases are non-communicable, [this book] offers an original and coherent argument for rethinking the relations between the biological and the social, but also for thinking through the communicability of conditions through the social, using concepts such as contagion and contamination, configuration and conflagration.” • Ruth Jane Prince, University of Oslo
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