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Author Wallace, Robert G., author.

Title Big farms make big flu : dispatches on infectious disease, agribusiness, and the nature of science / by Rob Wallace
Published New York : Monthly Review Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (456 pages)
Contents The Great Bird Flu Blame Game -- The NAFTA Flu -- The Hog Industry Strikes Back -- The Political Virology of Offshore Farming -- Do Pathogens Time Travel? -- We Can Think Ourselves into a Plague -- Influenza's Historical Present -- Does Influenza Evolve in Multiple Tenses? -- Virus Dumping -- That's the Thicke -- Alien vs. Predator -- The Scientific American -- The Axis of Viral -- Are Our Microbiomes Racial? -- The X-Men -- Two Gentlemen of Verona -- Food and Pharm WikiLeaks -- Synchronize Your Barns -- The Dirty Dozen -- The Red Swan -- Social Meadicine -- Pale Mushy Wing -- Whose Food Footprint? -- A Probiotic Ecology -- Strange Cotton -- Cave/Man -- The Virus and the Virus -- Coffee Filter -- Homeland -- Disease's Circuits of Capital -- Flu the Farmer -- Protecting H3N2v's Privacy -- Distress of Columbia -- Did Neoliberalizing West African Forests Produce a New Niche for Ebola? -- Collateralized Farmers -- Mickey the Measles -- Made in Minnesota -- Missed Anthropy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Influenza -- Epidemiology
Epidemics
Agricultural industries -- Health aspects
Influenza, Human -- epidemiology
Epidemics
epidemics.
MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
Agricultural industries -- Health aspects
Epidemics
Influenza -- Epidemiology
Form Electronic book
Author Davis, Mike
ISBN 9781583675922
1583675922