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

Author
Olsson, Eva-Karin
Published
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 volume)
Additional Creators
Xue, Lan, 1959-
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Language Note
English.
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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ISBN
0739170368 (electronic bk.)
9780739170366 (electronic bk.)
0739147552
0739147560
9780739147566
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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