Neoliberal Ebola Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest a
This book compiles five papers modeling the effects of neoliberal economics on the emergence of Ebola and its aftermath. The multidisciplinary teams represented here place both Ebola Makona, the Zaire Ebola virus variant that has infected 28,000 in W
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Neoliberal Ebola Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm
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Neoliberal Ebola
Robert G. Wallace • Rodrick Wallace Editors
Neoliberal Ebola Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm
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Editors Robert G. Wallace Institute for Global Studies University of Minnesota MN, USA
Rodrick Wallace New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Division of Epidemiology NY, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-40939-9 ISBN 978-3-319-40940-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40940-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016947954 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Preface
Disease outbreaks are as much markers of as they are threats to modern civilization. What successfully evolves and spreads depends on the matrix of barriers and opportunities a given society presents its circulating pathogens (FAO 2013; Engering et al. 2013; R.G. Wallace et al. 2015). For most of its history, Vibrio cholerae predated upon plankton in the Ganges delta (Johnson 2006). Only once humanity switched to urban sedentism and later by nineteenth century trade and transport became increasingly integrated in geography and economy did the cholera bacterium evolve an explosive human-specific ecotype. Simian immunodeficiency viruses, spilling over for centuries, emerged out of their nonhuman Catarrhini reservoirs as HIV only when colonial expropriation turned subsistence bushmeat and the urban sex trade into commodities of industrial scale (Wallace 2010; Pepin 2011; Timberg and Halpern 2013). Domesticated stock served as sources for human diphtheria, influenza, measles, mumps, plague, pertussis, rotavirus A, tuberculosis, sleeping sickness, and visceral leishmaniasis (McNeill 1977/2010; Wolfe et al. 2007). Ecological changes brought upon landscapes by human inte
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