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Microbial Resolution: Visualization and Security in the War against Emerging Microbes (Proximities)
1517911702 rar 1517911702 rar Why the global health project to avert emerging microbes continually fails In 1989, a group of U.S. government scientists met to discuss some surprising findings: new diseases were appearing around the world, and viruses that they thought long vanquished were resurfacing. Their appearance heralded a future perpetually threatened by unforeseeable biological risks, sparking a new concept of disease: the emerging microbe. With the Cold War nearing its end, American scientists and security experts turned to confront this new enemy, redirecting national security against its risky horizons. In order to be fought, emerging microbes first needed to be made perceptible but how could something immaterial, unknowable, and ever mutating be coaxed into visibility, knowability, and operability? Read more