This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book introduces disease diagrams, which take to be ways of understanding and acting upon disease and health threats. For example, if disease is understood as a germ-borne menace, then exclusion is the spatial practice of choice. This book adopts and develops accounts of disease that emphasise the entanglements of bodies, microbes and infrastructures, and thereby a relational understanding of disease. Its intent is to expand on the potential for a pathological understanding of life, and a more continuous, less dichotomous sense of health. There are four key moves that make this book that distinguish our approach to emergency disease. They are from forest edge to socio-technical diseases, from disease sites to disease situations, from pathogens to pathogenicities and finally in a politics of life.
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