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.

“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

• List of FiguresIntroduction: Configuring Contagion in Biosocial epidemicsLotte Meinert and Jens SeebergChapter 1. Gender Configurations and Suicide in Northern UgandaSusan Whyte and Henry ObokeChapter 2. Configuring Epidemic Suicide in OceaniaTed LoweChapter 3. Haunted by the Future: Autism and the Spectre of Prison – Configuring Race and Disability in the African American CommunityCheryl Mattingly and Stephanie Keeney ParksChapter 4. Configuring Affection: Family Experiences of Obesity and Social Contagion in DenmarkLone GrønChapter 5. Health Activists and Trauma Contagion: Cultural Epidemics and Raising Awareness of Trauma in Post-conflict, Post-tsunami AcehJesse Hession Grayman, Mary-Jo DelVeccio Good and Byron GoodChapter 6. Touched by Violence: Configuring Affliction after War in Northern UgandaLars Williams and Lotte MeinertChapter 7. ‘These Spirit Attacks are Like an Epidemic’: Spirit Possession as Affective Contagion in NigerAdeline Masquelier, Abouzeidi Maidouka Dillé and Ly Amadou H. BelkoChapter 8. Haunted by Internet Porn: Configuration of a Hidden ContagionDoug HollanChapter 9. Contagious Configurations: Reproductive Governance from Abortion to Zika virus in Latin AmericaLynn M. MorganChapter 10. Figures of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis.Jens Seeberg, Bijaylaxmi Rautray and Shyama MohapatraAfterword: Epidemics and GhostsByron GoodIndex

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.

“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

• List of FiguresIntroduction: Configuring Contagion in Biosocial epidemicsLotte Meinert and Jens SeebergChapter 1. Gender Configurations and Suicide in Northern UgandaSusan Whyte and Henry ObokeChapter 2. Configuring Epidemic Suicide in OceaniaTed LoweChapter 3. Haunted by the Future: Autism and the Spectre of Prison – Configuring Race and Disability in the African American CommunityCheryl Mattingly and Stephanie Keeney ParksChapter 4. Configuring Affection: Family Experiences of Obesity and Social Contagion in DenmarkLone GrønChapter 5. Health Activists and Trauma Contagion: Cultural Epidemics and Raising Awareness of Trauma in Post-conflict, Post-tsunami AcehJesse Hession Grayman, Mary-Jo DelVeccio Good and Byron GoodChapter 6. Touched by Violence: Configuring Affliction after War in Northern UgandaLars Williams and Lotte MeinertChapter 7. ‘These Spirit Attacks are Like an Epidemic’: Spirit Possession as Affective Contagion in NigerAdeline Masquelier, Abouzeidi Maidouka Dillé and Ly Amadou H. BelkoChapter 8. Haunted by Internet Porn: Configuration of a Hidden ContagionDoug HollanChapter 9. Contagious Configurations: Reproductive Governance from Abortion to Zika virus in Latin AmericaLynn M. MorganChapter 10. Figures of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis.Jens Seeberg, Bijaylaxmi Rautray and Shyama MohapatraAfterword: Epidemics and GhostsByron GoodIndex

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.

“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

• List of FiguresIntroduction: Configuring Contagion in Biosocial epidemicsLotte Meinert and Jens SeebergChapter 1. Gender Configurations and Suicide in Northern UgandaSusan Whyte and Henry ObokeChapter 2. Configuring Epidemic Suicide in OceaniaTed LoweChapter 3. Haunted by the Future: Autism and the Spectre of Prison – Configuring Race and Disability in the African American CommunityCheryl Mattingly and Stephanie Keeney ParksChapter 4. Configuring Affection: Family Experiences of Obesity and Social Contagion in DenmarkLone GrønChapter 5. Health Activists and Trauma Contagion: Cultural Epidemics and Raising Awareness of Trauma in Post-conflict, Post-tsunami AcehJesse Hession Grayman, Mary-Jo DelVeccio Good and Byron GoodChapter 6. Touched by Violence: Configuring Affliction after War in Northern UgandaLars Williams and Lotte MeinertChapter 7. ‘These Spirit Attacks are Like an Epidemic’: Spirit Possession as Affective Contagion in NigerAdeline Masquelier, Abouzeidi Maidouka Dillé and Ly Amadou H. BelkoChapter 8. Haunted by Internet Porn: Configuration of a Hidden ContagionDoug HollanChapter 9. Contagious Configurations: Reproductive Governance from Abortion to Zika virus in Latin AmericaLynn M. MorganChapter 10. Figures of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis.Jens Seeberg, Bijaylaxmi Rautray and Shyama MohapatraAfterword: Epidemics and GhostsByron GoodIndex