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Big farms make big flu : dispatches on infectious disease, agribusiness, and the nature of science / by Rob Wallace.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wallace, Robert G., author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Influenza--Epidemiology.
Influenza.
Epidemics.
Agricultural industries--Health aspects.
Agricultural industries.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (457 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York : Monthly Review Press, [2016]
Summary:
The first collection to explore infectious disease, agriculture, economics, and the nature of science together Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more quickly.
Contents:
Cover
Contents
Introduction
PART ONE
The Great Bird Flu Blame Game
The NAFTA Flu
The Hog Industry Strikes Back
The Political Virology of Offshore Farming
Do Pathogens Time Travel?
PART TWO
We Can Think Ourselves into a Plague
Influenza's Historical Present
Does Influenza Evolve in Multiple Tenses?
Virus Dumping
That's the Thicke
PART THREE
Alien vs. Predator
The Scientific American
The Axis of Viral
Are Our Microbiomes Racial?
The X-Men
PART FOUR
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Food and Pharm WikiLeaks
Synchronize Your Barns
The Dirty Dozen
The Red Swan
Social Meadicine
PART FIVE
Pale Mushy Wing
Whose Food Footprint?
A Probiotic Ecology
Strange Cotton
Cave/Man
PART SIX
The Virus and the Virus
Coffee Filter
Homeland
Disease's Circuits of Capital
Flu the Farmer
Protecting H3N2v's Privacy
Distress of Columbia
PART SEVEN
Did Neoliberalizing West African Forests Produce a New Niche for Ebola?
Collateralized Farmers
Mickey the Measles
Made in Minnesota
Missed Anthropy
Notes
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
1-58367-592-2
OCLC:
951973056

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