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	On Contagions: Leviticus and the Fascination of the Abomination
		Contagions are a key element in the construction of such theories because contagion as communication or transmissibility provides a sort of discursive hinging or adhesion, an apparent stabilizing of the uneasy immanence/transcendence of the culture concept.
		Contagions, however, appear in a different light when the culture concept is exposed as essentially a metaphysical construction driven by an epistemological insistence on the privilege of the same, and a subsuming of otherness and difference under an ultimate controlling power of the whole.
		Contagions indicate more than an ideological resource for segregating the pure and impure in their various guises, significant as this function is to understanding power and the forms of cultural hegemony.
	prophetess.lstc.edu /~rklein/Doctwo/contagion.htm (7121 words)

	Social Contagion
		The article concludes by proposing a memetic theory of social contagion, arguing that social contagion research and memetics are indeed two sides of the same social epidemiological coin, and ends with a call for their synthesis into a comprehensive body of theoretically informed research.
		Instead social contagion is held to be "the spread of affect or behaviour from one crowd participant to another; one person serves as the stimulus for the imitative actions of another." Such a definition has the advantage of focusing and clarifying the observable contagion phenomenon, whatever internal states may or may not be present.
		Contagion is now an accepted risk factor in suicide research, and the overwhelming evidence has prompted the establishment of several government programmes to minimise the effects of suicide contagion.
	www.viralculture.com /pubs/socialcontagion.htm (5788 words)

	What Young Children Know about Contamination and Contagion and
		At least for modern adults in western cultures, contagion and contamination, though separate concepts, are understood as components or aspects of a single model of disease transmission: an infection model of illness.
		Thus, the information that one case of a novel disease is associated with a particular property (e.g., is contagious) affected projection of that property to a second case of the novel disease for some properties but not others.
		Contagion and contamination, for example, are important components of people’s conceptions of illness in a way that preferences or emotions are not.
	corundum.education.wisc.edu /papers/CandC.html (11615 words)

	Imitation in Animals
		Contagion can be used to describe certain courtship displays when they involve coordinated movements between the male and female that are can sometimes appear to be virtual mirror images (Tinbergen, 1960).
		When imitative behavior is typically studied, an observing animal (e.g., a rat) is exposed to a demonstrator (rat) that is performing a novel response such as bar pressing and the rate of acquisition of the novel response is taken as a measure of imitation.
		The imitation of a novel response being acquired or being performed by a demonstrator that is motivated by the avoidance of painful stimulation (e.g., electric shock) presents the need for special control.
	www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu /avc/zentall/default.htm (11262 words)

	Thought Contagions and Financial Markets:
		As with older works, the evolutionary thought contagion paradigm proposes numerous processes generating forms of irrationality and delusion that can only be achieved by a population, and that add to the irrational aspects of human psychology at the individual level.
		With any thought contagion, net propagation depends on such things as how many offspring are inculcated per host per year, how many non-offspring are persuaded per host per year, dropout rate, mortality rate, resistance to conversion to alternative memes, interference with the spread of alternative memes, intellectual appeal, emotional appeal, and so forth.
		When contagion effects send individual stocks and entire markets soaring to levels that cannot be justified by more rational earnings expectations, the stage is set for corrections and crashes, which may themselves be fueled by thought contagions working in the opposite direction and with greater speed.
	contagions.behaviouralfinance.net /Lync00.htm (10904 words)

	Abstracts
		Novelizations have always existed, they were borne in the very fist decades of movie industry, and although there has been always a tension between « anti-adaptive » and « adaptive » versions of the genre, i.e.
		Indeed, novelization, the success of which cannot be denied, seems to contradict in a rather direct manner all possible axioms surrounding the remediation theory.
		By quoting the etymology of the words contamination and contagion, one points to the contact which is the condition of contamination or contagion, but one ignores that the contact should bear no consequences if the one who gets in contact is not receptive.
	www.unisi.it /synapsis/synapsis2003/abstracts.htm (2954 words)

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		As the master was often saved from seeming thin and tame only by his unfailing grace and mellow wisdom, the disciples, inferior in these respects, did not always escape thinness or tameness.
		The preoccupation with local color encouraged love of surfaces, if not a satisfaction with surfaces alone; so that, though the local color novel was likely to be a more serious performance than the short story of the type, it nevertheless suffered from the contagion of triviality.
		The lives which these novels represent have little to do with the clash of the times in religious or moral, any more than in political, matters.
	www.bartleby.com /187/pages/page223.html (256 words)

	Department of Sociology
		This generalized model of contagion incorporates individual memory of exposure to a contagious entity (e.g., a rumor or disease), variable magnitudes of exposure (dose sizes), and heterogeneity in the susceptibility of individuals.
		The conditions for a particular contagion model to belong to one of these three classes depend only on memory length and the probabilities of being infected by one and two exposures respectively.
		In sum, influentials are limited in their effect since the condition for a cascade to occur is really a global one; there must be a sufficient population of vulnerables available, and it is the most influential of these vulnerables that dictate the spread of an influence.
	www.soc.washington.edu /spotlight/archive_detail.asp?ID=60 (531 words)

	Plague of the Century: Thoughts on Crowd, Conformity, and Contagion
		Contagion, after all, threatens natural borders (self and other) and artificial ones (class, race, nation), both individual and communal.
		Contagion metaphors are everywhere: we are confronted daily in the news media with the "virus" of sexism, road rage, doubt, war, and witchcraft; with "epidemics" of hate, handguns, disrespect, eating disorders and even, in a bizarre recent instance, historical novels (Dee 77).
		In this way, microbial contagion, and the metaphors which deform or translate it into other realms of understanding, will continue to shape our conception to the point where, in Louise Glück's phrase, self ends and "the blur of the world begins" ("Dreamer" 80).
	www.americanpopularculture.com /journal/articles/fall_2002/raney.htm (2286 words)

	The Wolves Are at the Door
		Intercut throughout the novel are glimpses of the ''Little Red Riding Hood'' fairy tale, featuring Hormiga as the heroine and her Aunt Gracia as Red Riding Hood's grandmother -- and not one but two wolves.
		To most North Americans, for whom Central America was merely a sort of provincial theater in the larger drama of the cold war, the novel serves as a vivid reminder of the terror and hope of wartime San Salvador.
		Argueta's novel of poet-rebels, brother-traitors and young women wandering in a forest of wolves is an invaluable memento of that exceptional past.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~ewh/REVIEW.NYT.LITTLERED.htm (517 words)

	book review - Gravity Tess Gerritsen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The contagion now threatens Earth's population, and the astronauts are stranded in orbit, quarantined aboard the station - where they are dying one by one...
		Each character in this novel is in pursuit of his or her dream and it is when these dreams come crashing together, that disaster strikes.
		The novel examines our worst fears as a species and it is obvious that Gerritsen researched her subject.
	www.fiction-net.co.uk /review-gravity.htm (681 words)

	The Spread of Irrational Behaviours by Contagion: An Agent Micro-Simulation
		contagion - where behaviour can only be copied directly from one agent to another via social contact (simple `echo' contagion of the behavioural variety - Levy and Nail 1993; those authors' requirement that there should be non-intentionality is not relevant to software objects).
		These S-shaped curves represent the most trivial case of contagion, and are presented as a reference point for the curves in the subsequent simulations.
		This is clearly an S-shaped curve, demonstrating that, once the novel meme has survived the first few iterations, the `self-fulfilling prophecy' mechanism turns a random walk into an irresistible tendency.
	cfpm.org /jom-emit/2002/vol6/gatherer_d.html (7635 words)

	Jouvert 6.3: Andrew Armstrong, "Bloody History!"
		In this context the novels are palimpsestual as they construct historical events which are interrelated to 'all other events, prior or contemporaneous.' My use of the palimpsest therefore does not include the act of total erasure or effacing, since the 'original' text is never completely rubbed out.
		Ultimately one realizes that the novel has a post-colonial dimension, but a post-colonial reading not only cannot exhaust the novel's meaning, but in fact seems itself to be specifically challenged or interrogated by the forms and processes of the novel itself -- by Harris's language of the imagination.
		The novel begins at the end of World War II with the Jews on the island of Cyprus awaiting passage to Israel, their new home.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /jouvert/v613/armstr.htm (6053 words)

	Where to Connect to the Inner Hum
		But if the novel were to wither -- if, say, it metamorphosed altogether into a species of journalism or movies, as many popular novels already have -- then the last trustworthy vessel of the inner life (aside from our heads) would crumble away.
		The novel's intricate tangle of character and incident alights on the senses with a hundred gossamer knowings fanning their tiny wings, stirring up nuances and disclosures.
		In the art of the novel; in the novel's infinity of plasticity and elasticity; in a flap of imaginary wallpaper.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/magazine/home/20000507mag-novel.html (1461 words)

	Memetics and Social Contagion: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
		Following a thematic overview of social contagion research, this paper examines the question of whether this established field of social science and the nascent discipline of memetics can be usefully understood as two sides of the same coin.
		A hysterical contagion is "the dissemination of a set of symptoms among a population in which no manifest basis for the symptoms may be established." (Kerckhoff and Back 1968).
		A fifth area of contagion research has investigated the contagious properties of consumer behaviour which sometimes results in the spread of consumer fashions and fads through populations in a manner more indicative of an influenza epidemic than rational behaviour (Marsden, forthcoming b).
	cfpm.org /jom-emit/1998/vol2/marsden_p.html (5616 words)

	contagion - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Contagion : AMEX Dictionary of Financial Risk Management [home, info]
		Phrases that include contagion: immediate contagion, asian contagion, behavioral contagion, contagion pollution, emotional contagion, more...
		Words similar to contagion: infection, transmission, contagious disease, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=contagion (285 words)

	SSRN-Homosexuality as Contagion: From The Well of Loneliness to the Boy Scouts by Nancy Knauer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The novel detailed the life and loves of Stephen Gordon, a female invert, for whom same-sex desire was depicted as an innate, god-given, and potentially noble characteristic.
		The media coverage generated by the trials and the attendant moral panic assured THE WELL a position as the most influential lesbian novel of the twentieth century and marked the controversy as a water shed in the development of lesbian identity.
		In particular, they underscore the resilience of the contagion model; the arguments used to suppress THE WELL are strikingly similar to those used today to silence positive images of same-sex desire, relationships, and identities in a wide variety of contexts including, education, public employment, and government funded programs.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=888759 (898 words)

	The Reader's Connection: History as Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Deborah Larsen's riveting first novel, The White is based on the true story of a 16-year-old girl named Mary who was taken captive in 1758 by a Shawnee raiding party.
		The Bondswoman's Narrative is an autobiographical novel written in the 1850s by a fugitive slave known as Hannah Crafts.
		Geraldine Brooks' first novel, Year of Wonders was inspired by an actual village in England that was decimated by the bubonic plague in the years 1665-1665.
	www.glenview.lib.il.us /RAblog/archives/000070.html (231 words)

	Crash Contagion
		The death of Diana can be explained by the epidemiology of a contagion, a crash contagion that leapt from mind to mind infecting new brains.
		In this way the crash contagion spread through the population through a process of replication in a global game of Chinese Whispers, as if it was a virus.
		A key issue in the spread of the Diana crash contagion was the role of the mass media as a vector.
	members.tripod.com /~Paul_Marsden/Crash-Contagion.html (2837 words)

	Sociological Research Online
		Social contagion research has produced an eclectic, largely confused and jumbled body of evidence that lacks any comprehensive organising principle or conceptual framework.
		It is suggested that the emerging evolutionary paradigm of memetics may provide a novel conceptual framework for understanding and explaining the empirical phenomenon of social contagion, by understanding it as the observable action of selfish memes replicating through a population.
		The article concludes by proposing a memetic theory of social contagion, and ends with a call for the synthesis of the two bodies to create a comprehensive body of theoretically informed research.
	www.socresonline.org.uk /cgi-bin/abstract.pl?3/4/6.html (193 words)

	Robin Cook (novelist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A number of Cook's novels, including Coma, have been made into movies.
		He has also been a deep sea diver at Jacques-Yves Cousteau's Oceanographic Institute.
		Michael Crichton directed the film Coma, adapted from a Robin Cook novel, and there are other similarities in terms of genre and the fact that both Cook and Crichton are physicians, are of similar age and write about similar subjects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robin_Cook_(novelist) (163 words)

	Charles Web Journal: January 2005
		I think this beginning is much better as it does a better job of introducing the protagonist and hints at his major goal and the conflicts or barriers that he will have to overcome.
		Although it is her first novel, she had written many other pieces.
		When creating a novel, I follow a very organized system which starts the first day by deciding on the theme of my novel which I reduce to a single sentence.
	go1c.blogspot.com /2005_01_01_go1c_archive.html (1306 words)

	Galactopedia I Section 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Novel published in 1947 on Terra, the first in a series of stories by Mickey Spillane about a fictitious detective named Mike Hammer.
		The text of the novel identified this vessel as NCC-1631, the same registry as the Intrepid destroyed at Gamma 7A.
		The Michael Jan Friedman novel "Crossover" identified the Intrepid as a Galaxy-class starship.
	www.captainmike.org /Galactopedia/i1.html (2619 words)

	Synapsis 2003
		The Nineteenth-Century novel exploits frequently this theme: think, just to make an example, how the moral features of the lineage "Linton" and of the lineage "Earnshaw" are transmitted and intertwined in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.
		In the field of literature, contamination constitutes a powerful instrument for all formal innovation and research, often operating by means of parody, debasement, ironic manipulation of stylistic levels and modes.
		The central form of modern literature, the novel, was born entirely under the sign of contamination, and has grown grace to its capacity of absorbing and integrating various forms and modes of discourse, thus breaking all aesthetic and social boundaries.
	www.unisi.it /synapsis/englishversion/synapsis2003/synapsis2003.htm (518 words)

	Dislocating literature: The novel and the Gretna Green romance, 1770-1850 Novel: A Forum on Fiction - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Within these critiques, the woman reader is generally figured as a quixotic figure unable to distinguish between fantasy and desire, and fact.
		As many critics have observed, the impressionable female reader was routinely deployed as a figure of disruptive desire by commentators and moral reformists of the period.4 Yet Whitehead attributes Miss Flack's fall not just to her novel-reading but to a larger atmosphere of excess and contagion produced by the commercial culture that everywhere surrounds her.
		Within this modern romance scenario, the institutions of the novel and the institutions of elopement intersect and overlap so as to be indistinguishable from each other.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3643/is_200110/ai_n8955942/pg_5 (258 words)

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		At times in the novel, the narrator presents education as a type of fermentation in which young men receive a number of conflicting ideas, undergo a process of intellectual struggle, and finally emerge as wiser human beings.
		In the face of all the negative moments in the novel in which forms of communication are made suspect, Dickens provides the reader with emotionally powerful moments in which contact and communication, despite their many dangers, help fulfil characters' lives.
		As the novel progresses, the power of the central doctor, Dr. Hope, grows greater and greater, and his struggles are presented as taking place not simply against a disease, but against damaging language.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~cjacobso/prop.html (3981 words)

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		Closely related to the question of arbitrary crises is "contagion", the phenomenon in which a currency crisis in one country often seems to trigger crises in other countries which which it seemingly has only weak economic links (e.g., Mexico and Argentina, or Thailand and the Philippines).
		One simple explanation of contagion involves real linkages between the countries: a currency crisis in country A worsens the fundamentals of country B.
		One may also argue, of course, that contagion reflects irrational behavior on the part of investors, either because individuals are really irrational or because money managers face asymmetric incentives.
	web.mit.edu /krugman/www/crises.html (8765 words)

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