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The Viral Network is an insightful ethnography of various social worlds that assemble under the banner of influenza research and global public health. It is an ambitious and innovative work that enacts a number of novel ways of conceiving and doing anthropology: as pathography, as viral ethnography, and as anthropology of information. Theresa MacPhail's observations are sharp, and her data and descriptions are incredibly valuable and offer insight into the inner workings of global public health. -Timothy K. Choy, University of California, Davis, author of Ecologies of Comparison: An Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong In The Viral Network, Theresa MacPhail deftly describes recent influenza outbreaks and their associated pandemic scares and public health responses from a variety of productive angles. MacPhail's research is based in a rich array of ethnographic experience: research in Hong Kong and at the CDC during the H1N1 outbreak, work at the California Department of Public Health, and participation in a well-connected and informed influenza research network in Berkeley and San Francisco. She views public health as part of a superorganism connected by unique perspectives and histories, and by experiences of influenza and expertise itself. -Celia Lowe, University of Washington, author of Wild Profusion: Biodiversity Conservation in an Indonesian Archipelago

The Viral Network is an insightful ethnography of various social worlds that assemble under the banner of influenza research and global public health. It is an ambitious and innovative work that enacts a number of novel ways of conceiving and doing anthropology: as pathography, as viral ethnography, and as anthropology of information. Theresa MacPhail's observations are sharp, and her data and descriptions are incredibly valuable and offer insight into the inner workings of global public health. -Timothy K. Choy, University of California, Davis, author of Ecologies of Comparison: An Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong

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Theresa MacPhail is Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Humanities and Social Thought at New York University.

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