The Viral Network -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue to a Pathography -- 1. Seeing the Past or Telling the Future? : On the Origins of Pandemics and the Phylogeny of Viral Expertise -- 2. The Invisible Chapter (Work in the Lab) -- 3. Quarantine, Epidemiological Knowledge, and Infectious Disease Research in Hong Kong -- 4. The Siren's Song of Avian Influenza: A Brief History of Future Pandemics -- 5. The Predictable Unpredictability of Viruses and the Concept of "Strategic Uncertainty" -- 6. The Anthropology of Good Information: Data Deluge, Knowledge, and Context in Global Public Health -- 7. The Heretics of Microbiology: Charisma, Expertise, Disbelief, and the Production of Knowledge -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References.