Bishnupriya Ghosh examines the media practices that inscribe and transmit data about infectious diseases and shape how we live with perpetual pandemics.

List of Illustrations  vii
List of Abbreviations  xi
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction: Epidemic Media  1
1. The Epidemic Episteme: Health as Multispecies Politics  35
2. The -Morphic Image: Visualizing the Virus  77
3. The Sensible Medium: Clinical Translations of Blood  113
4. The Multispecies Kinesthetic: Tracking Animal Host Movements  157
Conclusion: Media Theory (in a Pandemic)  199
Notes  211
Bibliography  255
Index  277

Bishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of English and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Media and Risk.