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Networked disease emerging infections in the global city /

A collection of writings by leading experts and newer researchers on the SARS outbreak and its relation to infectious disease management in progressively global and urban societies.: Presents original contributions by scholars from seven countries on four continents; Connects newer thinking on globa...

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Corporate Authors: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Group Author: Ali, S. Harris.; Keil, Roger, 1957-
Published:
Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Series: Studies in urban and social change
Subjects:
SARS (Disease) > Ontario > Toronto.
SARS (Disease) > China > Hong Kong.
SARS (Disease) > Singapore.
Globalization > Health aspects.
Urban health.
SARS (Disease)
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome > prevention & control.
Communicable Diseases, Emerging > prevention & control.
Internationality.
Public Health Practice.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Respiratory. > Respiratory.
China > Hong Kong.
Ontario > Toronto.
Singapore.
Electronic books.
Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444305012
Summary: A collection of writings by leading experts and newer researchers on the SARS outbreak and its relation to infectious disease management in progressively global and urban societies.: Presents original contributions by scholars from seven countries on four continents; Connects newer thinking on global cities, networks, and governance in a post-national era of public health regulations and neo-liberalization of state services; Provides an important contribution to the global public debate on the challenges of emerging infectious disease in cities; Examines the impact of globalization on future i.
Carrier Form: xxii, 356 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-337) and index.
ISBN: 9781444305012
1444305018
9781444305029 (electronic bk.)
1444305026 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: RA644
CLC: R563.1
Contents: Toward a dialectical understanding of networked disease in the global city : vulnerability, connectivity, topologies /
Health and disease in global cities : a neglected dimension of national health policy /
SARS and the restructuring of health care governance in Toronto /
Globalization of SARS and health governance in Hong Kong under "one country, two systems" /
Surveillance in a globalizing city : Singapore's battle against SARS /
The troubled public sphere and media coverage of the 2003 Toronto SARS outbreak /
SARS as a "health scare" /
City under siege : authoritarian toleration, mask culture, and the SARS crisis in Hong Kong /
"Racism is a weapon of mass destruction" : SARS and the social fabric of multiculturalism /
Deadly alliances : death, disease, and the global politics of public health /
Tuberculosis and the anxieties of containment /
Networks, disease, and the utopian impulse /
People, animals, and biosecurity in and through cities /
SARS as an emergent complex : toward a networked approach to urban infectious disease /
Thinking the city through SARS : bodies, topologies, politics /
Vapors, viruses, resistance(s) : the trace of infection in the work of Michel Foucault /
Fleshy traffic, feverish borders : blood, birds, and civet cats in cities brimming with intimate commodities /

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