Virulent Zones : Animal Disease and Global Health at China's Pandemic Epicenter / Lyle Fearnley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fearnley, Lyle, author.

Series:

Experimental Futures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

Duke University Press 2020

[s.l.] : Duke University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Lyle Fearnley is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Summary:

Scientists have identified southern China as a likely epicenter for viral pandemics, a place where new viruses emerge out of intensively farmed landscapes and human--animal interactions. In Virulent Zones, Lyle Fearnley documents the global plans to stop the next influenza pandemic at its source, accompanying virologists and veterinarians as they track lethal viruses to China's largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake. Revealing how scientific research and expert agency operate outside the laboratory, he shows that the search for origins is less a linear process of discovery than a constant displacement toward new questions about cause and context. As scientists strive to understand the environments from which the influenza virus emerges, the unexpected scale of duck farming systems and unusual practices such as breeding wild geese unsettle research objects, push scientific inquiry in new directions, and throw expert authority into question. Drawing on fieldwork with global health scientists, state-employed veterinarians, and poultry farmers in Beijing and at Poyang Lake, Fearnley situates the production of ecological facts about disease emergence inside the shifting cultural landscapes of agrarian change and the geopolitics of global health.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I ECOLOGY

CHAPTER ONE. THE ORIGINS OF PANDEMICS

CHAPTER TWO. PATHOGENIC RESERVOIRS

PART II LANDSCAPE

CHAPTER THREE. LIVESTOCK REVOLUTIONS

CHAPTER FOUR. WILD GOOSE CHASE

PART III TERRITORY

CHAPTER FIVE. AFFINITY AND ACCESS

CHAPTER SIX. OFFICE VETS AND DUCK DOCTORS

CONCLUSION. VANISHING POINT

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NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478090502

1478090502

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478012580

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access