The WetNet: What the Oral Polio Vaccine Hypothesis Exposes about Globalized Interspecies Fluid Bonds.
The author analyzes the aftermath of Edward Hooper's suggestion that the trial of an oral polio vaccine (OPV) in the Belgian colonies of Africa engendered the pandemic form of the AIDS virus, HIV-1. In response to Hooper's book, The River (1999), the Royal Society in London held a conference to deba...
| Publicado en: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 504 - 525 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2020
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