Introduction / Ananya Murkherjea -- Capitalism is making us sick : poverty, illness and the SARS crisis in Toronto / Jeffrey Shantz -- False perceptions and falciparum / Danae Roumis -- Policy, polity and the HIV crisis in emerging economies : India and Russia compared / Tinaz Pavri, Thomas Rotnem -- The concept of emerging infectious disease revisited / Márcia Grisotti, Fernando Dias de Avila-Pires -- Sounding a public health alarm : producing West Nile virus as a newly emerging infectious disease epidemic / Maya Gislason -- Emerging and concentrated HIV/AIDS epidemics and windows of opportunity : prevention and policy pitfalls / Shari L. Dworkin -- The social politics of pandemic influenzas : the question of (permeable) international, inter-species, and interpersonal boundaries / Ananya Mukherjea -- The poetics of American circumcision on the margins of medical necessity / Daniel Skinner -- Of rebels, conformists, and innovators : applying Merton's typology to explore an effective home care policy for the emerging Alzheimer's epidemic / William Cabin -- Promoted by Hong Tao, the Chlamydia / Frederick Attenborough -- The rhetoric of science and statistics in claims of an Autism epidemic / Victor W. Perez -- Bipolar disorder and the medicalization of mood : an epidemics of diagnosis? / Antonio Maturo -- What epidemic? : the social construction of bipolar epidemics / Kathryn Burrows -- The depression epidemic : how shifting definitions and industry practices shape perceptions of depression prevalence in the United States / Sara Kuppin -- Biomedicalizing metal illness : the case of attention deficit disorder / Manuel Vallée -- Contagious youth : deviance and the management of youth sociality / Michael Jolley -- A social change model of the obesity epidemic / Deborah A. Sullivan -- Who says obesity is an epidemic? : how excess weight became an American health crisis . Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk -- 'Who are you calling "fat"?' : the social construction of the obesity epidemic / Alana J. Hermiston.