The book makes three main conceptual contributions, reconceptualising disease as situated matters, the spatial or topological analysis of
Table of Contents
List of Figures ix
Series Editors’ Preface x
Acknowledgements xi
Foreword xiii
Part I Framing Pathological Lives 1
1 Pathological Lives – Disease, Space and Biopolitics 3
Introduction: The Emergency of Emergent Infectious Diseases 3
The Four Moves of Pathological Lives 8
References 21
2 Biosecurity and the Diagramming of Disease 25
Disease Diagrams 27
The Disease Multiple: Germs and the Return of the Outside 31
Biosecurity and the Diagramming of Disease 34
Conclusions 47
References 49
3 Reconfiguring Disease Situations 52
Disease Situations 54
Microbial Life and Contagion as Difference and Repetition 67
A Topological Disease Situation 72
Conclusions 80
References 81
Part II Disease Situations 87
Introduction 87
References 89
4 ‘Just‐in‐Time’ Disease: A Campylobacter Situation 91
Factory‐Farmed Chicken and Food‐borne Disease 93
Relational Economy of Disease 101
Powers of Life 107
Conclusions 108
References 109
5 The De‐Pasteurisation of England: Pigs, Immunity and the Politics of Attention 112
Birth of the Sty 113
Pigs in Practice – Fieldwork and Translations 119
Immunity, Attention and More‐than‐Human Responses 132
Conclusions 139
References 139
6 Attending to Meat 143
Introduction 143
Mapping the Current Landscape of Food Safety 144
A Failure of Coordination? 151
Inspection as Tending the Tensions of Food Safety 154
Being Stretched 162
Conclusions 164
References 166
7 A Surfeit of Disease: Or How to Make a Disease Public 169
The Media Background to Disease Publics 171
Publicising Disease: From Public ‘Understanding’ to ‘Engagement’ 174
Understanding and Engaging Disease Publics 177
Understanding the Surfeit 179
Conclusions: Making a Disease Public 187
References 189
8 Knowing Birds and Viruses – from Biopolitics to Cosmopolitics 192
Sensing Life 193
A Livelier Biopolitics and a Noisier Sentience 198
A Perceptual Ecology of Knowing Birds 200
Surveying Life 204
Knowing Viruses 206
The Significance of Observation 208
Conclusions 210
References 211
9 Conclusions – Living Pathological Lives 214
Time‐Space and Intra‐Actions 216
A livelier Politics of Life 218
A new Kind of Emergency? 220
References 222
Index 223
