Germ wars : the politics of microbes and America's landscape of fear /

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"The United States government has spent billions of dollars to prepare the nation for bioterrorism despite the extremely rare occurrence of biological attacks in modern American history. Germ Wars argues that bioterrorism has emerged as a prominent fear in the modern age, arising with the produ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Armstrong, Melanie, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Colección:Critical environments. Nature, science, and politics.
Temas:
Bioterrorism > United States > Prevention.
Bioterrorism > United States > Psychological aspects.
Biopolitics.
Bioterrorisme > États-Unis > Aspect psychologique.
Biopolitique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Biopolitics
Bioterrorism > Prevention
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : political ecologies of bioterror
  • "Smallpox is dead" : the public health campaign to (almost) eradicate a species
  • Microbes for war and peace : on the military origins of containment
  • The wild microbiological west : fighting ticks and weighing risks
  • Agents of care : bioterrorism preparedness at the CDC
  • Simulation science : securing the future
  • Bioterror borderlands : of nature and nation
  • Conclusion: "freaked out yet?"

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