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