{"product_id":"the-virus-touch-9781478019213","title":"The Virus Touch","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Virus Touch\u003c\/i\u003e Bishnupriya Ghosh argues that media are central to understanding emergent relations between viruses, humans, and nonhuman life. Writing in the shadow of the HIV\/AIDS and COVID-19 global pandemics, Ghosh theorizes “epidemic media” to show how epidemics are mediated in images, numbers, and movements through the processes of reading test results and tracking infection and mortality rates. Scientific, artistic, and activist epidemic media that make multispecies relations sensible and manageable eschew anthropocentric survival strategies and instead recast global public health crises as biological, social, and ecological catastrophes, pushing us toward a multispecies politics of health. Ghosh trains her analytic gaze on these mediations as expressed in the collection and analysis of blood samples as a form of viral media; the geospatialization of data that track viral hosts like wild primates; and the use of multisensory images to trace fluctuations in \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  vii\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations  xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Epidemic Media  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Epidemic Episteme: Health as Multispecies Politics  35\u003cbr\u003e 2. The -Morphic Image: Visualizing the Virus  77\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Sensible Medium: Clinical Translations of Blood  113\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Multispecies Kinesthetic: Tracking Animal Host Movements  157\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Media Theory (in a Pandemic)  199\u003cbr\u003e Notes  211\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  255\u003cbr\u003e Index  277","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409010532695,"sku":"9781478019213","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478019213.jpg?v=1730505079","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-virus-touch-9781478019213","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}