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The Viral Network : A Pathography of the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (247 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801454899
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Viral NetworkDDC classification:
  • 614.5/18
LOC classification:
  • RA644
Online resources:
Contents:
The Viral Network -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue to a Pathography -- 1. Seeing the Past or Telling the Future? : On the Origins of Pandemics and the Phylogeny of Viral Expertise -- 2. The Invisible Chapter (Work in the Lab) -- 3. Quarantine, Epidemiological Knowledge, and Infectious Disease Research in Hong Kong -- 4. The Siren's Song of Avian Influenza: A Brief History of Future Pandemics -- 5. The Predictable Unpredictability of Viruses and the Concept of "Strategic Uncertainty" -- 6. The Anthropology of Good Information: Data Deluge, Knowledge, and Context in Global Public Health -- 7. The Heretics of Microbiology: Charisma, Expertise, Disbelief, and the Production of Knowledge -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References.
Summary: Theresa MacPhail examines our collective fascination with and fear of viruses through the lens of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
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The Viral Network -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue to a Pathography -- 1. Seeing the Past or Telling the Future? : On the Origins of Pandemics and the Phylogeny of Viral Expertise -- 2. The Invisible Chapter (Work in the Lab) -- 3. Quarantine, Epidemiological Knowledge, and Infectious Disease Research in Hong Kong -- 4. The Siren's Song of Avian Influenza: A Brief History of Future Pandemics -- 5. The Predictable Unpredictability of Viruses and the Concept of "Strategic Uncertainty" -- 6. The Anthropology of Good Information: Data Deluge, Knowledge, and Context in Global Public Health -- 7. The Heretics of Microbiology: Charisma, Expertise, Disbelief, and the Production of Knowledge -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References.

Theresa MacPhail examines our collective fascination with and fear of viruses through the lens of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.

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