Contagion: Health, Fear, Sovereignty

Contents

Acknowledgments vii Introduction The Hydra of Contagion Bruce Magnusson and Zahi Zalloua 3 1 Rethinking the War on Terror New Approaches to Conflict Prevention and Management in the Post-9/11 World Paul B. Stares and Mona Yacoubian 25 2 Epidemic Intelligence Toward a Genealogy of Global Health Security Andrew Lakoff 44 3 The Aesthetic Emergency of the Avian Flu Affect Geoffrey Whitehall 71 Contents 4 Bio Terror Hybridity in the Biohorror Narrative, or What We Can Learn from Our Monsters Priscilla Wald 99 5 Contagion, Contamination, and Don DeLillo’s Post–Cold War World-System Steps toward a Haptical Theory of Culture Christian Moraru 123 6 Contagion of Intellectual Traditions in Post-9/11 Novels Alberto S. Galindo 149 Bibliography 175 Notes on Contributors 189 Index 193 ...