Special exhibition “Social Contagion”, Moesgård Museum, February 11 – May 14, 2017. Jens Seeberg: Medicine resistant tuberculosis in India The social contagion of drug resistance Drug resistance develops when e.g. bacteria mutate and act against medicine. But such biological processes are not random. They follow…
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Special exhibition “Social Contagion”, Moesgård Museum, February 11 – May 14, 2017. Birgitte Folmann: Contagious class and lifestyle in Uganda The social contagion of aspirations, and the happiness of having a lifestyle Northern Uganda is experiencing economic growth and rapid change in the aftermath of…
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Special exhibition “Social Contagion”, Moesgård Museum, February 11 – May 14, 2017. Jeanette Lykkegård: Death and reincarnation in Siberia An animistic understanding of social contagion What does living and dying mean to people in Northern Kamchatka? This project explores the wanted and unwanted relations between…
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Special exhibition “Social Contagion”, Moesgård Museum, February 11 – May 14, 2017. Lone Grøn: Obesity, kinship and relatedness in Denmark It runs in the family. What is contagious in the obesity epidemic? How does obesity spread? Can one say that something is contagious in the…
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Special exhibition “Social Contagion”, Moesgård Museum, February 11 – May 14, 2017. Lotte Meinert: Post-traumatic stress disorder and spirits in Uganda Trauma and spirits after the war in Uganda: Is PTSD contagious? After twenty years of civil war in northern Uganda (1986-2006), people have returned…
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Special exhibition “Social Contagion”, Moesgård Museum, February 11 – May 14, 2017. Marie Louise Tørring: Reframing Cancer as an Acute Condition Numbers generate belief – belief is catching! Cancer rates are rising in the ageing population of the Western world, but longevity is not the…
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