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Viral Economies: Bird Flu Experiments in Vietnam

Viral Economies: Bird Flu Experiments in Vietnam

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  • Natalie Porter
  • University of Chicago Press
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  • 9780226648941
  • 8.9 X 6 X 0.6 inches
  • 0.57 pounds
  • Social Science > Anthropology - Cultural & Social
  • English
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Over the last decade, infectious disease outbreaks have heightened fears of a catastrophic pandemic passing from animals to humans. From Ebola and bird flu to swine flu and MERS, zoonotic viruses are killing animals and wreaking havoc on the people living near them. Given this clear correlation between animals and viral infection, why are animals largely invisible in social science accounts of pandemics, and why do they remain marginal in critiques of global public health?

In Viral Economies, Natalie Porter draws from long-term research on bird flu in Vietnam to chart the pathways of scientists, NGO workers, state veterinarians, and poultry farmers as they define and address pandemic risks. Porter argues that as global health programs expand their purview to include life and livestock, they weigh the interests of public health against those of commercial agriculture, rural tradition, and scientific innovation. Porter challenges human-centered analyses of pandemics and shows how dynamic and often dangerous human-animal relations take on global significance as poultry and their pathogens travel through global livestock economies and transnational health networks. Viral Economies urges readers to think critically about the ideas, relationships, and practices that produce our everyday commodities, and that shape how we determine the value of life--both human and nonhuman.

Viral Economies: Bird Flu Experiments in Vietnam

Author Bio

Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow Natalie Porter is Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Porter is a medical anthropologist specializing in multispecies anthropology and the anthropology of science, technology, and medicine. Her research explores how pandemic disease threats are transforming scientific knowledge and public health practice worldwide.

Natalie is currently writing a book entitled, Viral Economies: An Ethnography of Bird Flu in Vietnam, which traces several bird flu interventions from their inception in multinational policy arenas through to their implementation in poultry farming communities. The book explores the exchange of resources at different sites of bird flu intervention in order to signal emerging tensions between the resolutely “public” ethos of global health and the increasingly proprietary devices of bio-security. Natalie is also carrying out a research project that analyses scientists’ ongoing efforts to regulate experiments on highly pathogenic viruses.

Before joining the faculty at Notre Dame, Natalie held positions at the University of Freiburg and the University of New Hampshire. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation & Society at the University of Oxford.

 

Research Interests 

Medical anthropology; science and technology studies; multispecies ethnography; biopolitics; property; pandemics


A book project, “Viral Economies: Bird Flu Control and Global Health Experiments beyond the Human,” traces bird flu interventions from the multinational policy arena to their implementation in Vietnamese farming communities, exploring tensions between the “public” ethos of global health and the proprietary devices inherent in livestock economies and bio-security regimes. Other research analyses scientists’ efforts to regulate experiments on pathogenic viruses. 

 

Source: University of Notre Dame 

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