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The Virus Touch : Theorizing Epidemic Media /

"In The Virus Touch Bishnupriya Ghosh argues that media are central to understanding emergent relations between viruses, humans, and nonhuman life. Writing in shadow of the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 global pandemics, Ghosh theorizes "epidemic media" to show how epidemics are mediated in i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ghosh, Bishnupriya (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Epidemic media
  • The epidemic episteme : health as multispecies politics
  • The -morphic image : visualizing the virus
  • The sensible medium : clinical translations of blood
  • The multispecies kinesthetic : tracking animal host movement
  • Conclusion: Media theory (in a pandemic).