Description

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.

Eva-Karin Olsson and Lan Xue bring together crisis management scholars with genuine knowledge of the geographic area covered in each of the chapters to examine the response to the SARS crisis at national and international levels, as well as media analysis.

Table of Contents

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

Product details

Published 09 Nov 2011
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 270
ISBN 9798216314592
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

EO
Anthology Editor

Eva-Karin Olsson

LX
Anthology Editor

Lan Xue

LA
Contributor

Logan Atkinson

SB
Contributor

Stephanie Buus

JD
Contributor

Joan Deppa

ED
Contributor

Edward Deverell

DM
Contributor

Dan Markel

AS
Contributor

Andrew Seaberg

SS
Contributor

Simon Shen

ES
Contributor

Eric K. Stern

CS
Contributor

Christopher Stoney

GY
Contributor

Grace Han Yao

KZ
Contributor

Kaibin Zhong

QZ
Contributor

Qin Zhu

Reviews

  • This volume offers a unique multidisciplinary and cross-national perspective on institutional and media responses to the SARS outbreak. Its in-depth coverage of key outbreak events, decisions, actions and media representations in China (including Hong Kong) and Canada helps us understand just how disruptive and challenging even a medium-fatality viral outbreak like SARS can be. This book is a must-read for students of disasters and emergency management world-wide.

    Paul 't Hart, Utrecht University and Australian National University

  • This rich and ground-breaking book synthesizes a multitude of evidence and argument to provide the definitive explanation of how the world responded to SARS. It also offers valuable lessons on how to prepare for and cope with the devastating potential of transboundary pandemics. It is a must-read for scholars and practitioners in the field.

    Allan McConnell, The University of Sydney

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