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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Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Studies in urban and social change. |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444305012 |
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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. |
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9781444305012 1444305018 9781444305029 (electronic bk.) 1444305026 (electronic bk.) |
Index Number: | RA644 |
CLC: | R563.1 |
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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 / |