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100 1  Caduff, Carlo, |eauthor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015039056
245 14 The pandemic perhaps : |bdramatic events in a public culture of danger / |cCarlo Caduff.
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264  1 Oakland, California : |bUniversity of California Press, |c[2015]
264  4  |c©2015
300    xvi, 254 pages : |billustrations ; |c23 cm
336    text |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |2rdamedia
338    volume |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-242) and index.
505 0  Introduction -- A ferret's sneeze -- On the run -- Casualties of contagion -- Experiments of concern -- A real test -- The great deluge -- Epilogue.
520    "In 2005, American experts sent out urgent warnings throughout the country: a devastating flu pandemic was fast approaching. Influenza was a serious disease, not a seasonal nuisance; it could kill millions of people. If urgent steps were not taken immediately, the pandemic could shut down the economy and 'trigger a reaction that will change the world overnight.' The Pandemic Perhaps explores how American experts framed a catastrophe that never occurred. The urgent threat that was presented to the public produced a profound sense of insecurity, prompting a systematic effort to prepare the population for the coming plague. But when that plague did not arrive, the race to avert it carried on. Paradoxically, it was the absence of disease that made preparedness a permanent project. The Pandemic Perhaps tells the story of what happened when nothing really happened. Drawing on fieldwork among scientists and public health professionals in New York City, it's an investigation of how actors and institutions produced a scene of extreme expectation through the circulation of dramatic plague visions. It argues that experts deployed these visions to draw attention to the possibility of a pandemic, frame the disease as a catastrophic event, and make it meaningful to the nation. Today, when we talk about pandemic influenza, we must always say 'perhaps.' What, then, does it mean to engage a disease in the modality of the maybe?"--Provided by publisher.
650  0 Influenza |zUnited States |xForecasting.
650  0 Influenza |xSocial aspects |zUnited States.
650  0 Influenza |zUnited States |xPrevention.
650  0 Epidemics |zUnited States |xForecasting.
650  0 Epidemics |xSocial aspects |zUnited States.
650  0 Epidemics |zUnited States |xPrevention.
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