The Rules of Contagion

(Greg DeLong) #1
Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical
Sciences, 2011; Hempel S., ‘John Snow’, The Lancet, 2013;
Brody H. et al., ‘Map-making and myth-making in Broad Street:
the London cholera epidemic, 1854’, The Lancet, 2000.


  1. Reason for abstraction: Seuphor M., Piet Mondrian: Life and
    Work (Abrams, New York, 1956); Tate Modern, ‘Five ways to look
    at Malevich’s Black Square’,
    https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/kazimir-malevich-1561/five-
    ways-look-malevichs-black-square.

  2. Background on cholera: Locher W.G., ‘Max von Pettenkofer
    (1818–1901) as a Pioneer of Modern Hygiene and Preventive
    Medicine’, Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2007;
    Morabia A., ‘Epidemiologic Interactions, Complexity, and the
    Lonesome Death of Max von Pettenkofer,’ American Journal of
    Epidemiology, 2007.

  3. García-Moreno C. et al., ‘WHO Multi-country Study on Women’s
    Health and Domestic Violence against Women’, World Health
    Organization, 2005.

  4. Quotes from author interview with Charlotte Watts, May 2018.

  5. Background on factors influencing contagion of violence: Patel
    D.M. et al., Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary (National
    Academies Press, 2012).

  6. Gould M.S. et al., ‘Suicide Clusters: A Critical Review’, Suicide
    and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1989.

  7. Cheng Q. et al., ‘Suicide Contagion: A Systematic Review of
    Definitions and Research Utility’, PLOS ONE, 2014.

  8. Phillips D.P., ‘The Influence of Suggestion on Suicide:
    Substantive and Theoretical Implications of the Werther Effect’,
    American Sociological Review, 1974.

  9. WHO. ‘Is responsible and deglamourized media reporting
    effective in reducing deaths from suicide, suicide attempts and
    acts of self-harm?’, 2015. https://www.who.int.

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