SARS from East to West / edited by Eva-Karin Olsson and Lan Xue.

By:

Olsson, Eva-Karin

Contributor(s):

Xue, Lan, 1959-

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0739170368
9780739170366

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

616.2 23

LOC classification:

RA644.S17 O47 2012eb

NLM classification:

WC 505

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Contents:

1. SARS: Meeting an Epidemic Head-On -- 2. SARS in China: An Overview -- 3. SARS in Beijing: An Urban Response -- 4. SARS in Hong Kong -- 5. An Analytical Memoir of the WHO Operation in China -- 6. SARS in Canada: Lessons to be Learned from the Greater Toronto Outbreak -- 7. SARS and Representations of the Morality of Quarantine in Ontario, Canada -- 8. Early International News Flow about SARS: Interconnected or Unconnected? -- 9. SARS in China: Western European News Coverage of a Pandemic in the East -- 10. Transboundary Crisis Management: Implications for Research and Practice.

Summary: "SARS from East to West is the production of international collaboration investigating the first major pandemic in the new millennium, SARS. As the only major outbreak of a deadly infectious disease in modern times, the SARS case is an excellent example of an emerging contagious disease in an interdependent and interconnected world and provided the bases for how subsequent pandemics, like the bird flu and swine flu, are viewed and managed"--Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"SARS from East to West is the production of international collaboration investigating the first major pandemic in the new millennium, SARS. As the only major outbreak of a deadly infectious disease in modern times, the SARS case is an excellent example of an emerging contagious disease in an interdependent and interconnected world and provided the bases for how subsequent pandemics, like the bird flu and swine flu, are viewed and managed"--Provided by publisher.

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