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E-book Virulent Zones : Animal Disease and Global Health at China's Pandemic Epicenter
With a striking persistence, scientific publications and mass media reports identify China as the possible source of future pandemics. The trope of ori-gins gives the anticipation of future outbreaks a spatial form: suggesting that the seeds of the next pandemic already exist, perhaps hidden, waiting, some-where in China.1 The peculiar temporality of pandemic preparedness—focused on potential catastrophic outbreaks rather than already prevalent illness—is an important theme in critical discussions of global health.2 But what are the spa-tial consequences of anticipation? How does pandemic preparedness transform the geography of global health research and intervention? And, in particular, how does preparedness differ in those regions of the world marked as sources of disease, instead of the countries that seek “self-protection” from foreign epi-demic threats?.
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