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Journal Article
Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 15–35.
Published: 01 March 2011
... influenza (HPAI), and most recently a novel influenza A (H1N1) also known as swine flu. While these contagious matters have received considered and considerable attention, the biomedically oriented responses that they have provoked also raise a few important conceptual questions about what we mean when we...
Journal Article
Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2020
... across the Pacific. It focuses on a series of recent events mediated through textual and visual forms that unfold as a contemporary ethical drama between species—the human and the pig: the 2009 swine flu pandemic, a 2013 episode in which thousands of pig carcasses were found floating in Shanghai’s...
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Journal Article
Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 3–14.
Published: 01 March 2011
... — in dystopic, utopic, and quotidian terms. For
example, Cohen’s essay uses the recent swine flu pandemic (as just one
historical instance of anxiety about epidemics) to contemplate what he
terms the “paradoxical politics...
Journal Article
Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 43–69.
Published: 01 March 2011
... to erroneously in some quarters as “swine flu.”65 An early
devastating blow to porcine xeno came in 1995, when Robin Weiss, a
virologist based in the United Kingdom, found that PERVs (porcine
endogenous retroviruses), which could be asymptomatic in pigs yet bore
unknown dangers...
