The Pathogens of Finance : How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaup, Brent Z.

Contributor:

Austin, Kelly F.

Series:

Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics Series

Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics Series ; v.16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vector control.

Mosquitoes as carriers of disease.

Ticks as carriers of disease.

Financialization.

Landscape changes--Environmental aspects.

Landscape changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

Summary:

The Pathogens of Finance is an exploration of how the rising power and profits of Wall Street underpin the contemporary increases in and inadequate responses to vector-borne disease. Over the past fifty years, insects have transmitted infectious diseases to humans with greater frequency and in more unexpected places. To examine this phenomenon, Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin take readers to the exurban homes of northern Virginia; the burgeoning agricultural outposts of Mato Grosso, Brazil; and the smallholder coffee farms of the Bududa District of eastern Uganda. Through these case studies, the authors illuminate how the broader financialization of society is intimately intertwined with both the creation of landscapes more conducive to vector-borne disease and the failure to prevent and cure such diseases throughout the world.

Contents:

Cover

Series Editors

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. A Northern Invasion

2. The Worst Animal in the World

3. All That Remains Is Man and Mosquito

4. The Treatment of Fringe Benefits

5. Mosquito Derivatives

6. Treating from Home

7. The Bank of the Planet

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-520-41251-6

OCLC:

1500761987