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Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science
1402698255, 2014904243, 2014110127

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Table of 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

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