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.

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