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The Viral Network A Pathography of the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic
Author
Title
The Viral Network [electronic resource] : A Pathography of the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic / Theresa MacPhail.
ISBN
0801454891
9780801454899
0801452406 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801479835 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801452406 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801479830 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) : illustrations.
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Summary
"In The Viral Network, Theresa MacPhail examines our collective fascination with and fear of viruses through the lens of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. In April 2009, a novel strain of H1N1 influenza virus resulting from a combination of bird, swine, and human flu viruses emerged in Veracruz, Mexico. The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced an official end to the pandemic in August 2010. Experts agree that the global death toll reached 284,500. The public health response to the pandemic was complicated by the simultaneous economic crisis and by the public scrutiny of official response in an atmosphere of widespread connectivity. MacPhail follows the H1N1 influenza virus's trajectory through time and space in order to construct a three-dimensional picture of what happens when global public health comes down with a case of the flu"-- Publisher's Web site.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - Archive Archaeology and Anthropology Supplement VII.
Project MUSE - Archive Complete Supplement VII.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 28, 2019
Series
Expertise: cultures and technologies of knowledge
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232).
Contents
Seeing the past or telling the future? : on the origins of pandemics and the phylogeny of viral expertise
The invisible chapter (work in the lab)
Quarantine, epidemiological knowledge, and the history of infectious disease research in Hong Kong
The siren song of avian influenza : a brief history of future pandemics
The predictable unpredictability of viruses and the concept of "strategic uncertainty" in global public health
The anthropology of good information : data deluge, knowledge, and context in global public health
The heretics of microbiology : charisma, expertise, disbelief, and the production of knowledge.
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