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dc.contributor.authorFearnley, Lyle
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-06T03:30:37Z
dc.date.available2021-05-06T03:30:37Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48499
dc.description.abstractScientists have identified southern China as a likely epicenter for viral pandemics, a place where new viruses emerge out of intensively farmed landscapes and human--animal interactions. In Virulent Zones, Lyle Fearnley documents the global plans to stop the next influenza pandemic at its source, accompanying virologists and veterinarians as they track lethal viruses to China's largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake. Revealing how scientific research and expert agency operate outside the laboratory, he shows that the search for origins is less a linear process of discovery than a constant displacement toward new questions about cause and context. As scientists strive to understand the environments from which the influenza virus emerges, the unexpected scale of duck farming systems and unusual practices such as breeding wild geese unsettle research objects, push scientific inquiry in new directions, and throw expert authority into question. Drawing on fieldwork with global health scientists, state-employed veterinarians, and poultry farmers in Beijing and at Poyang Lake, Fearnley situates the production of ecological facts about disease emergence inside the shifting cultural landscapes of agrarian change and the geopolitics of global health.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of scienceen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicineen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.otherScience
dc.subject.otherPhilosophy & Social Aspects
dc.subject.otherMedical
dc.subject.otherPublic Health
dc.subject.otherSocial Science
dc.subject.otherAnthropology
dc.subject.otherCultural & Social
dc.titleVirulent Zones
dc.title.alternativeAnimal Disease and Global Health at China's Pandemic Epicenter
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1215/9781478012580
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oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9781478090502
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintDuke University Press
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/201845a4-bf72-42bc-aede-aa4713c0502a
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